Boatmen on the Rapti river

Sick in Chitwan

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October 25th 2005
After a bumpy five hour bus ride from Kathmandu we arrived to the village of Sauraha in Chitwan national park. Chitwan was conveniently on our way towards Indian border. When we got off the bus everybody seemed to have someone from a hotel waiting for them, except for us and a dutch couple. After five minutes everybody else had disappeared so there were only the four of us surrounded by a number o ... read more

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In 1951, the Nepalese monarch ended the century-old system of rule by hereditary premiers and instituted a cabinet system of government. Reforms in 1990 established a multiparty democracy within the framework of a constitutional monarchy. A Maoist in... ... read more