Sunsari Ineruwa Nepal

Sunsari Nepal
Ineruwa is the district headquarters of Sunsari district at a distance of 500 kilometers from Kathmandu. It is a densly populated district with wide range of ethnic people.

Dharan Bazaar isthe focal point of this region, lying at the base of the evergreen Bijaypur Hills. An unusual feature of town life is the Union Jack that flies over one of the squat single-storey buildings. This is one of the British Army Gurkha recruiting centres in Nepal. Wiry teenagers from the hills continue a long and noble tradition, enlisting usually for life while older generations, now retired, make the long trek each month from the same hills to pick up their pensions. A tough physical examination limits the number of recruits but those who succeed are fitted out with new uniforms
and flown abroad for 10 months’ basic training, thereafter returning home for their first leave to a hero’s welcome from their relatives and neighbours.

The new recruits walk through Dharan smiling proudly and browsing among the market stalls in the old town, where vendors peddle oranges, butter, and herbs. The orchards of the Vijaypur Hills are rich and productive, and surplus fruit is preserved in a recently established canning factory. Access
is by bus from Biratnagar through Itahari.

Dharan is also the base for trekking the Makalu region. One of the toughest treks in the world takes you from Dharan through the subtropical floor of the Arun Valley and over the Shipton Pass to the slopes of the three great peaks of Makalu, Everest, and Lhotse

Bijayapur is a  flat Churiya hillock which uninterruptedly overlooking the flat green Tarai on its south. It lies at a distance of about 3 kilometers north-east of the main Dharancity. Clustered and enshrined with many important temples of the region such as Pindeshwor, Dantakali, Panchakanya
Budhasubba, Sitaladevi, Shiddhivinatak and Bhimesnsthan,

Bijayapur is the most important pilgrimage site in the region. Bijayapur is naturally adorned with typical geo-topography and has a congenial climatic condition. It is a historical township from where the rulers including the Sen Dynasty used to run administration. The ancient artifacts adornment
of Bijayapur is now disappearing.
Valued by Hindus from prehistoric period as the place where ‘Pancha Pandavs’ conducted ‘Maha Yagya’ in ‘Dwapar Era’ (Era with Krishna as the incarnation of Lord Vishnu during the Mahabharata
age), Bijayapur is equally holy place for mongols where shrine of Buda Subba exists. It takes 45 minutes on foot to reach Bijaypur from Dharan. Cars on rent are also available at the Dharan Bus Park.

Dantakali temple, Situated in the middle of the beautiful hillock of Vijayapur in Dharan. The temple is famous among the Hindus as the place where lie the sacred teeth of the goddess Satidevi, the consort of the great God Shiva.

There is the popular belief that the temple still enshrines the sacred teeth. The Hindu myths and the legends say at the death of Satidevi, bereaved Mahadev carried the dead body upon his solder and walked incessantly in utter agony.
Different parts of the body fell in different places as he walked on and the teeth fell in the place where the temple stands at present. The holy book of ‘Swasthani Brata Katha’ asserts this and gives the name Dantakali lilterally Danta meaning teeth and ‘kali’ one of the various forms of goddess Durrga.

Thousands of devotees from far and near congregate here with great religious fervour; mainly the first nine days of Dashain see great crowds offering worship and sacrifice of goats and other animals and birds. The place is very good for sight seeing too; it is an ideal place to have the bewitching view of the Tarai and Dharan Bazaar.

Pindeshwor Temple is situated at Bijayapur and is famous pilgrimage site of the eastern Nepal. It is located nearby Dantakali temple.

Budha Subba, Situated amidst the tall trees and bamboo groves, is one of the four major temples at Bijayapur. Unlike many other Hindu temples with the images of gods and goddesses, the temple enshrines three tomblike mounds believed to be the tombs of king Buddhikarna, the last king of the then state of Bijayapur and his family killed by the rulers of Shah Dynast of Gorkha in 1832 B.S.

There is still another legend about the temple that an enlightened old Mongolian (Limbu) Tantric came here wandering from Chulachuli; and discarded his body in ancient time in the place where the temple stands now.

The place offers a unique example of religious harmony as the Mongolian deity especially of the Kirantis is worshipped with equal religious fervour by both the Indo-Aryans and the kirantis. In addition many miracles can be witnessed there, bamboos there do not have pointed tops and gnat
and crows are never seen in the territory and dewdrops never fall here. People in large number from far and near always congregate here to pay homage and offer sacrifice of goats, roosters, eggs, buffaloes, pigs, ducks etc. after their wishes are granted, it is said.

Vishnu paduka, situated 8 kilometers northwest of Dharan, is one of the most ancient places of Hindu pilgrimage. On the foot of the mahabharata hill, bear the head of the Koka River, stands the small temple of of Vishnu paduka, which enshrines a stone with a foot print on it, believed to be that of Lord Vishnu. Hindu pilgrims congregate here in thousands to pay homage to the souls of their ancestors.

The significance of the place is not less than that of Gaya in India in this regard. The Hindu scriptures have it that Lord Vishnu himself along with his consort Laxmi offered worships to the omnipresent ancestors.

The river Koka and the forest nearby add beauty to the place and it is growing popular among the sightseers as well. It is a historically important place as many remnants of the ‘Kirant age’ are still found here.

Panch meaning five and kanya means women (virgin), Panchaknyais the temple of five goddesses Draupadi, Tara, Manju, Kunti and Parvati. Situated 1 kilometer north of Bijayapur square, it is a historical temple supposed to have built by a king of Sen Dynasty, Narendra Sen in the 16th century. Dilapidated by the earthquake in 1988, the temple was renovated later. A beautiful evergreen forest surrounds the temple where peace tranquility and the beauty of nature regimes.

Devotees flock there in thousands with the staunch belief that the deities there bless the deaf, dumb and blind children with speech, hearing and eyesight. Besides, large number of nature lovers and picnic groups come here to enjoy the beauty of nature.

Varahakshetra, located at the confluence of Sapta Koshi and Kora rivers of Sunsari district, is one of the most famous pilgrimage site of the Hindus from the time immemorial. It is among the four holy Chhetra (Areas) of Hindu pilgrims two of which Varahakshetra and Muktinath, are in Nepal and
the rest lie in India.

Varaha or the boar is the third of ten incarnations of Lord Vishnu. It is believed that is was the Varaha form of Lord Vishnu that saved the earth from the deluge. Almost all the puranas including Veda state that the Varahakshetra of Nepal is the ma site where the Varaha form of Lord Vishnu originated.

The Arun Valley which lies close to the ridge on which Dhankuta stands is one of the most remote and beautiful regions in the country. Nowhere are the country’s stunning scenic contrasts more sharply defined than in the Arun valley, in the shadows of the Khumbu Harkna Himal, beneath daunting 8,481meter peak, where the wide, lazy Arun River meanders along the valley floor. The river bestows a mantle of verdant green and nourishes the cool leafy trees which provide shade all along this enchanted valley and its many neighbouring valleys. Its villages have remained unchanged for centuries.

Though only a short distance northward above the tree-clad hills rise the world’s mightiest mountains, at its lowest levels the valley could be in Africa. The bare red earth is dotted with stunted, semi-arid, savannah grass. Groves of succulents and stands of banana trees repeat the African image.

The heat of the sun’s rays, funnelled into the valley by the rising hills, is merciless. Brickmakers use it to bake their product for the thatched cottages on the hillsides. In the north, the valley is bounded by the snow covered 4,100 meter Shipton Pass, beyond which lie the mountains surrounding the three
great peaks of Everest, Makalu and Lhotse.

Anglers delight in the Ishwa valley, its slopes thick with rhododendrons and magnolias and its mountain streams alive with fish. Barun, another valley, its walls a tangled jungle of undergrowth, with rushing streams and plunging waterfalls, forms an amphitheatre, with the distant Makalu centre-stage.

It was in one of the rivers in this area — at a height of almost 5,000 metres (17,000 feet) — that a wildlife expert discovered what may well be the only high - altitude salamander in the world.

Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve is situated on the flood plains of the Sapta-Koshi in Saptari and Sunsari Districts of Nepal. The reserve is defined by the eastern and western embarkments of the river.

Vegetation found are mainly sand with a few patches of scrub forest and decidous mixed riverine forest.
The reserve offers important habitat for a variety of wildlife. The last surviving wild buffalos are found there. Hog deer, wild boar, spotted deer and blue bull and 208 different species of birds have been recorded.
These include 20 species of duck, two species of ibis, many storks, egrets and herons. The Koshi Barrage is extremely important as a resting place for migratory birds. Many species recorded there are not seen else - where in Nepal. Also seen are the endangered gharial crocodile and Gangetic dolphin in the Koshi River.