Baglung. Bukipatan, which has been bustling with domestic tourists during the rainy season, has become deserted due to the increasing cold. Bukipatan, which is bustling with tourists along with hundreds of shepherds and thousands of livestock, has been deserted since the first week of October.

Even the tall hills have become barren as the green grass has dried up. Bukipatan, which was earlier used as a breeding ground by shepherds, has been attracted to domestic and foreign tourists since the last two years.

From mid-July to September, the shepherds live in areas like Garpachheda, Dahakharka, Tikdhara, Rajban, Syachun, Furse Deurali, Fagune Deurali, among other areas of Bukipatan. Bukipatan is deserted after the shepherd brought down the cowshed. Even tourists have not been able to reach there due to increasing cold.

Bukipatan, which is located at an altitude of around 4,500 meters above sea level, has become an excellent destination for trekking. Sandesh Thapa, a hotel entrepreneur of Dhorpatan, said that the tourists visiting Buki Patan in search of cool condition are more likely to go to Buki Patan in search of cooling. According to him, although the number of tourists visiting Bukipatan is very high till September, the number of tourists visiting Bukipatan is only sporadic now.

Thapa said that most tourists visiting Bukipatan will go to Bukipatan during the rainy season as they can enjoy the scenery of lush green high hills, Patan, Kharka and dozens of mountain ranges. According to him, the shepherd had come down to the price in September. “The inflow of tourists to Bukipatan has been increasing in the last two years,” he said, adding that tourists from far-off places have started coming from the place where shepherds used to live in the past. ’

Livestock farmers from Baglung, Rolpa, Rukum, Myagdi and Dolpa have been using Bukipatan as grazing ground during the rainy season. Tul Bahadur Sunar of Dhorpatan Municipality-8 said he was the last one to fall into the valley. According to him, many shepherds have started shedding cattle from the last week of August and they have started shedding in the second week of September. Sunar said that Bukipatan was deserted at the time of his demolition and no one could reach due to the cold now.

“At this time, the water freezes in Bukipatan, it is very cold, it is not possible to go and live there, the place has become deserted after the shepherds have fallen, now there is no one in Buki, in the rainy season, we used to be only shepherds, now there is a crowd of visitors from all over the country and abroad,” Sunar said, adding, “Now the shepherds go up to Buki only in the month of Jeth and June. ’

The arrival of tourists has also decreased in the Dhorpatan valley due to increasing cold. Pawan Gharti Magar, a local, said that the number of people coming for snowfall will increase after the snowfall. He said that the locals will also descend to Bobang, Adhikarichaur and other places as the cold is increasing in Dhorpatan.

In the past, most of the residents of Dhorpatan valley used to migrate on a mobile basis. He used to stay in the valley in the winter and in the rainy season in Dhorpatan. But now the number of people living in Dhorpatan has increased. According to Gharti Magar, Dhorpatan has become the choice of many locals as development has gradually gained momentum after being connected to the road.