Tharu villages, tiger hunting and an interesting border crossing
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
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