Niluwa Lake, located in Galkot Municipality-4, is becoming a tourist destination in current scenario.Niluwa with its natural beauty has recently become the choice of internal tourists for site seeing, picnic and refreshment. Infrastructure construction work has also started in Niluwa, which has a lot of potential for tourism development near future. Tourism development of niluwa has been started under the leadership of Niluwa Tourism Area Promotion Center.
The center is carrying out promotional work including construction of footpaths, heritage protection and publicity. Lake was previously limited to farmers’ herds. Peoples says Niluwa is becoming an excellent destination for scenic views. “The topography and climate are very attractive we can see the mountains nearby and we can enjoy also hiking.
” From Niluwa, one can observe the Dhaulagiri, Annapurna and Machhapuchhe snow ranges. More than 80 farmers’ traditional cowsheds have also attracted internal tourists here. Nowadays, the cowsheds are empty after the farmers stopped coming to raise livestock and farm because of people moving in connivence places . The center is taking initiative to preserve the cowsheds which reflect the old lifestyle of the farmers.
