Langtang National Park


The park stretches in an area of 1710 square kilometers extending from 32 kilometers north of Kathmandu to the Tibetan border. Preserved since the early 1970s, the park is situated in the central Himalayas and is the nearest park to Kathmandu. The park boasts of catchments of two major river systems of the country, draining into Trishuli and Sun Koshi Rivers.

The park has a wide variety of vegetation owing to the inclusion of subtropical forests, temperate oak and pine forests and alpine grasses as we move north from south. There are 45 villages in the park boundaries, with 846 households and 4,500 people.