Nepal....just saying the word conjures up all sorts of images - vistas filled with sparkling white mountains, monks winding their way through hilltop villages chanting buddhist mantras, tigers stalking their prey through overgrown jungle and strangely painted Sadhus wandering on foot along dirty, dusty roads. While many of these images are accurate (and some of them we even saw), there is also a different side to Nepal - people will calmly wait in a queue for several hours or days to fill up their car, tuk-tuk or motorbike with petrol; people are welcoming, friendly and hospitable despite the fact that the country only opened up to foreigners in the last few years; and finally it is a place where the prevailing attitude is one of "what can you do" (usually accompanied by a shrug of the
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