VISIT KICHAKBADH JHAPA, NEPAL

ABOUT THIS PLACE

Kichakbadh is one of the historical and religious place of country Nepal, but due to lack of advertisement this place has fallen into shadows. Lying 10 km far from Bhadrapur Airport it is one of the place in Jhapa district that carries huge tourism potential. Each year Kichak badh Mela is conducted on Falgun Sukla Purnima, thousands of devotees from India as well as from different district of Nepal comes here to attend the Mela. Local Rajbanshi people organize a puja in the old pond of Kichak Badh.

Department of Archaeology always carries out excavation works every year to find out some remains and ancient material related to Mahabharata. During recent excavation, a team of archaeologists had found 8 room floor, old bricks and some artifacts. According to archaeologists, these remains are about 2000 years old, which clearly seems to be old as the date when Mahabharata happened.

According to legends this place was named after the incident where Bhima (one of Pandavas) killed monster named Kichak. Kichak was the commander in chief of Matsya, the kingdom ruled by king Virata. During Pandavs exile in forest they stayed in the palace of king Virata as incognito. During this period Pandavs wife Draupadi who was disguised as a servant in palace was nearly molested by Kichak. So she couldn't tolerate that humiliation and says her husband Bhima to kill him. So, Bhima killed him in Natya ghar where currently Kichak Badh place is located.

LOCATION OF KICHAKBADH

Kichak Badh temple is located in Prithivinagar of Jhapa district. It will take you around 15 to 20 minutes by bus to reach there from Bhadrapur Airport. Kichak Badh is also close to a place called Kachan Kawal ( It is a lowest point of country Nepal). Kichak Badh lies in the bank of Deonia river. This place Kichak Badh enjoys a hot summer and mild winter. Temple in here opens each and every day, so devotees all around the world are always welcome here.

CLIMATIC CONDITION

As we know that Kichak Badh is in Jhapa district, it lies is in Terai region with a low elevation range. Lying in terai region means you an easily find any means of transportation throughout a year. So, this place faces a hot summer with temperature reaching upto 43 degree celcious from May to August and mild winter temperature reaching upto 8 to 10 degree celious. 

In past it was really difficult to reach this temple but with the construction of road reaching in here is easy. Two as well as four wheeler vehicles can easily reach in this destination.

PROMOTING THIS PLACE

This place carries a huge tourist potential in eastern Nepal but due to lack of advertisement and also due to the ignorance of government this place has been under rated. But now locals in here are currently promoting this place, they organize Mela (Fair) and they invites high profile Nepalese celebrities so that this place can be promoted in national as well as to international levels.