Places to visit in Koshi
Tea gardens of Jhapa, the industrial city of Biratnagar, Dharan at the foot of the hills and the great Koshi river with its bird-filled floodplain.
Districts: Jhapa · Morang · Sunsari · Udayapur
Kakarbhitta & the Mechi bridge
Nepal's easternmost town, where the East–West Highway begins at the Mechi river and traffic crosses to Panitanki in India — the doorway for travellers from Darjeeling, Sikkim, Bhutan and Siliguri.
Eastern gateway1 min →
Tea gardens of Jhapa
Unlike the steep gardens of Ilam, Jhapa's tea grows on flat land: neat green rows running to the horizon, shade trees, pickers at work and small factories — Nepal's most accessible tea landscape.
Tea country of the plains1 min →
Arjundhara Dham
A Shiva temple around a sacred spring that local legend ties to Arjuna of the Mahabharata — the busiest pilgrimage site of Jhapa, crowded at Shivaratri and in the month of Shrawan.
Shiva shrine & sacred spring1 min →
◆ Hidden gemKichakbadh
Excavated brick ruins in southern Jhapa that tradition names as the place where Bhima killed the villain Kichak — one of the few archaeological sites of the far-eastern Tarai, and almost unknown to travellers.
Mahabharata legend & brick ruins1 min →Kechana Kawal
For decades the official lowest point of Nepal, at about 70 m above sea level, marked by a pillar among rice fields in the far south-eastern tip of Jhapa. A 2017 survey moved the title to Dhanusha — but this is still the symbolic bottom of a country famous for its tops.
Nepal's lowest ground (formerly)1 min →
Biratnagar
Nepal's first industrial town and the capital of Koshi Province. Its 1936 jute mill and the 1947 workers' strike helped start the movement that ended Rana rule — and it is the hometown of the Koirala political family.
Industrial city & cradle of democracy1 min →
◆ Hidden gemBetana Wetland
A small forest-ringed lake beside the East–West Highway at Belbari, managed by the local community — boating, birds, monkeys and a shady break on the long drive across the east.
Forest lake on the highway1 min →
Dharan
Where the plains meet the first ridges of the east: a lively, clean hill-foot city with a British Gurkha past, famous temples like Budha Subba and Dantakali, and the best pork and sukuti in Nepal by local reckoning.
City at the foot of the hills1 min →
Barahakshetra
One of the oldest pilgrimage sites in Nepal, where Vishnu is worshipped as Varaha, the boar, at the meeting of the Koshi and Koka rivers. Named in several Puranas, it draws huge crowds at Kartik Purnima, Makar Sankranti and its own Kumbha Mela.
Ancient Vishnu shrine at the Koshi1 min →
Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve
Grassy islands and braided channels of the Koshi river, protected since 1976 for Nepal's last wild water buffalo (arna) and famous for birds — hundreds of species, and huge flocks of ducks and geese in winter.
Ramsar wetland & bird paradise1 min →Every place on the map
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