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NEPAL | Monday, 14 January 2013 | Views [347] | View Smaller Image

Bicycles are considered a cheap and convenient way of getting around in Nepal, particularly around the Kathmandu Valley. Commuting is difficult. Taxis are extortionately priced, buses are overcrowded, and the city is big enough that walking is often impractical. Increasingly, people are turning to bicycles as a remedy.

In Nepal, the sacred grounds of the temples are considered as multifunctional educational place for impoverished Nepali children especially little girls. While the boys are out begging for money or food, little Nepali girls are safe inside the temples courts… Here they pray, learn about the Gods, and get to know the basics of being good future Nepali women… They spend most of their time playing inside the temples’ alleyways.

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A Tibetan refugee smoking hashish. Today, approximately 20,000 Tibetans refugees reside in Nepal. The vast majority of this population arrived before 1989. On the other hand, Cannabis has been grown in Nepal, in both wild and cultivated varieties, for an extremely long time. Even Sadhus, the mystics of Hinduism, are permitted to smoke hashish as part of their religious practice.

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