Village Tours
Several tour guide companies offer village tours, especially around lumbini. however you can safely walk, bike, motorbike in villages in this area in daytime, unguided.
Bird Watching
In winter, local farmland is a mosaic of different crops and stubbles, marshes, irrigation channels, streams and ponds. away from towns, scattered small villages often have large old trees used by roosting vultures and large water birds. especially try wetland grassland areas north of lumbini called khadara phanta, particularly good for seeing the endangered sarus crane. jagdishpur reservoir is another important bird area in kapilvastu district about 40 km nw of lumbini.
Terai Trekking
A flatland version of mountain trekking. first performed in 1991 by two peace corps volunteers who walked from bhairawaha, to trivenighat, and on to chitwan, some 70 kilometers in three days via existing back roads, farm lands, forests and footpaths. it was their way of attempting to walk a buddhist via dolorosa if you like, the path taken by siddhartha who renounced his princely life at tilaurakot and then walked and rode his steed kantaka east into the jungles. other versions could be day walks from bhairahawa to lumbini and catching the bus back.