Ten thousand tourists reached Rara in ten months

Mugu’. More than ten thousand tourists have come to visit Rara Lake in 10 months. From last July to mid-May, 10,341 domestic tourists, 43 from SAARC countries and 105,579 tourists from other foreign countries visited Rara.According to Jaihari Dhital, information officer of Rara National Park Office Hutu, most domestic tourists came to visit Rara during the Dasain (Tihar) holiday. This year, the highest number of 3,492 tourists came to visit Rara in the month of October.

By the end of Baisakh of the current year, the park has collected revenue of Rs. According to the park, Rs 25 lakh 30 thousand of the revenue was collected from tourists and the remaining Rs 5 lakh 33 thousand 781 from penalties, fines, firewood, etc.

In the last financial year, 11 thousand one hundred and ninety one domestic tourists visited Rara. 26 tourists from SAARC countries and 183 other foreign tourists came to visit Rara.

The National Park collects entrance fee at the rate of 100 per person from domestic tourists visiting Rara, 1,500 per person from tourists from SAARC countries and 3,000 per person from tourists outside SAARC countries. 20 percent of the fee is collected at the rate of 500 per person for boating, and 20 percent is collected by the park office, and 40 percent of the remaining 80 percent is collected by the boat driver and the intermediate zone development committee.

75 percent of those who come to visit Rara come by air and 25 percent by road. According to local residents, there is still no significant increase in tourist arrivals in Rara due to lack of reliable roads and air routes.

In the Rara area, the tourists complain that they have to suffer on the road due to lack of convenient hotels and reliable roads. The tourism sector of Rara, which has been affected by Covid-19, has flourished in the last 10 months of this year. For the tourists who visit Rara, it is green from May to October, so different types of flowers make Rara look more beautiful.

Tourists come to Rara from April to August to escape the heat and to enjoy the greenery, to celebrate holidays from October to November, to play in the snow from March to March and to view the Himalayas.