Following six months’ of closure, Tiger Tops Jungle Lodge resumed operations from Friday.

Tiger Tops Tented Camp will also reopen from coming Sunday. Issuing a press release, Kristjan Edwards, Chairman of the Tiger Mountain Nepal, announced the reopening of the Jungle Lodge and Tented Camp.

With over 40 years of experience in wildlife safari of Nepal, Tiger Tops has become synonymous with first class travel.

The announcement has been made after Tiger Tops and the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC) signed a new lease for some two and a half years.

"The new lease does apply some stricter provisions on environmental matters that we welcome and support," Edwards said.

He extended thanks to Tiger Tops’ team, especially Yadav Bantawa, Tiger Tops’ General Manager, for his pivotal role and indefatigable in his patience and persistence to achieve the agreement.

He has also praised the British Ambassador to Nepal and his staff for their significant diplomatic initiatives.

Minister of Forest and Soil Conservation Deepak Bohara and Secretary Yuba Raj Bhushal have also been a great help in explaining the situation and its ramifications, he said.

Hotel Narayani Safari, Temple Tiger, Chitwan Jungle Lodge and Island Jungle Resort have already resumed their operations.

The DNPWC had closed the seven tourist resorts, including them, about six months back.

In Sankhuwasabha, Chainpur, Pokhari Kharang, of Sankhuwasabha district has been decorated like a groom with the view to drawing more visitors’ attention in ‘Chainpur Festival’.

Political parties, civil society, industrialists, businessmen including others have been active to make the three-day-long fair the most excellent that will be organized on 11, 12 and 13 February.

Local Historical and religious places, cultural aspects, cottage industries, agricultural products including others are the attraction of the fair that has been organized at the eve of ‘’Nepal Tourism Year 2011".

Preparations for the dissemination of the festival have been intensified with the view to bringing around 0.1 million visitors in the festival, said chairman of organizing committee Ashish Shakya.