Lumbini Province

The birthplace of the Buddha, the old town of Tansen, Bardiya's tigers, and the Magar hills of Rolpa, Rukum and Pyuthan.

Lumbini Province is named after the garden where Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, was born. Lumbini, Tilaurakot (the palace of Kapilavastu) and Ramagrama are among the most important Buddhist sites in the world, and they lie within a short drive of each other on the western Terai.

North of the plains the province climbs through Palpa — whose capital Tansen is one of the best-preserved Newar hill towns outside the valley — and into the Magar heartland of Gulmi, Arghakhanchi, Pyuthan, Rolpa and Rukum East. In the west, Banke and Bardiya national parks are the best places in Nepal to see a wild tiger.