Kulu and Maita - both are Magars whose families live in Nangi Village, took me to the local bus station in Pokhara. The Magars are one of the major ethnic groups in Nepal. They're of Tibeto-Burmese origin and live in the middle hills. The hardy and energetic Magar men constitute a big contingent in the renown Gurkha army. It took us five hours to reach the town of Beni (actually, it should just be a four-hour bus ride, but mini breaks (toliet breaks, waiting-for-more-passengers breaks, stoping-in-military-checkpoints-because of maoist rebellion-problem-breaks) stretched the four hour journey into a five hour trip. The rickety bus is cramped, uncomfortable and I was sweating all the time owing to the warm weather. (it's not an aircon bus). But it's ok, the view from my window was great. Kulu pointed at
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