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Tharu villages, tiger hunting and an interesting border crossing

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November 5th 2010
The village of Thakurdwara on the edge of Bardia National Park is not the Nepal of common imagination. The mountains that are so emblematic of Nepal can be seen looming vague and ephemeral in the hazy distance but here, on the lower reaches of the Karnali river, the land is flat, sun-baked and lazy. This area in the west of Nepal, south of the Himalaya and north of the border with India, is known ... read more

Asia » Nepal » Karnali

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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