Improvised Tibetan prayer wheels

Nepal

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December 5th 2006
Next stop Nepal: Left Tibet as we had entered - arguing about taxi fares to border. Put our watches back 1 hour 45 minutes and bought a lift to Kathmandu in an ancient Toyota Corolla estate joined by an Indian guy we met at the border who couldn't haggle to save his life or even his Rupees. In kathmandu could finally buy guide books about Nepal and India - both bad words in China's Tibet - a ... read more

Asia » Nepal

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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