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Ghandruk and Annapurna at south,Nepal

Pokhara,Nepal

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Nepal and its culture

A typical Nepalese meal is Dal-bhat-tarkari. Dal is a spicy lentil soup, served over bhat (boiled rice), served with tarkari (curried vegetables) together with achar (pickles) or chutney (spicy condiment made from fresh ingredients). The Newar community, however, has its own unique cuisine. It consists of non-vegetarian as well as vegetarian items served with alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. Mustard oil is the cooking medium and a host of spices, such as cumin, coriander, black peppers, sesame seeds, turmeric, garlic, ginger, methi (fenugreek), bay leaves, cloves, cinnamon, pepper, chillies, mustard seeds, etc., are used in the cooking. The cuisine served on festivals is generally the best.Costumed Hindu-girls in Nepal.
Folklore is an integral part of Nepalese society. Traditional stories are rooted in the reality of day-to-day life, tales of love, affection and battles as well as demons and ghosts and thus reflect local lifestyles, cultures and beliefs. Many Nepalese folktales are enacted through the medium of dance and music

nepal and its language

Nepal's diverse linguistic heritage evolved from four major language groups: Indo-Aryan, Tibet-Bur man, Mongolian and various indigenous language isolates. The major languages of Nepal (percent spoken as mother tongue) are Nepali (70%), Maithili (5%), Bhojpuri (3%), Tharu (4%), Tamang (3%), Newari/Nepal Bhasa (3.6%), Magar (2.4%), Rai (2.8%), Awadhi (2.5%), Limbu (1.5%), and Bajjika (1%).
Derived from Sanskrit, Nepali has roots in Sanskrit and is written in Devanagari script. Nepali is the official national language and serves as lingua franca among Nepalis of different ethnolinguistic groups. Regional dialects Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Maithili and rarely Hindi are spoken in the southern Terai Region. Many Nepalis in government and business speak English as well. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in and north of the higher Himalaya where standard literary Tibetan is widely understood by those with religious education. Local dialects in the Terai and hills are mostly unwritten with efforts underway to develop systems for writing many in Devanagari or the Roman alphabet.

Nepal,its infrastructure

Nepal remains isolated from the world's major land, air and sea transport routes although, within the country, aviation is in a better state, with 48 airports, ten of them with paved runways; flights are frequent and support a sizable traffic. The hilly and mountainous terrain in the northern two-thirds of the country has made the building of roads and other infrastructure difficult and expensive. There were just over 8,500 km (5,282 mi) of paved roads, and one 59-km railway line in the south in 2003. There is only one reliable road route from India to the Kathmandu Valley.
The only practical seaport of entry for goods bound for Kathmandu is Calcutta in India. Internally, the poor state of development of the road system (22 of 75 administrative districts lack road links) makes volume distribution unrealistic. Besides having landlocked, rugged geography, few tangible natural resources and poor infrastructure, the long-running civil war is also a factor in stunting the economic growth.

Nepal and its region

Nepal is divided into 14 zones and 75 districts, grouped into five development regions. Each district is headed by a permanent chief district officer responsible for maintaining law and order and coordinating the work of field agencies of the various government ministries. The five regions and 14 zones are:
 Eastern Region (Purwanchal): Koshi, Mechi, Sagarmatha
 Central Region (Madhyamanchal): Bagmati, Janakpur, Narayani
 Western Region (Pashchimanchal): Dhaulagiri, Gandaki, Lumbini
 Mid-Western Region (Madhya Pashchimanchal): Bheri, Karnali, Rapti
 Far-Western Region (Sudur Pashchimanchal): Mahakali, Seti
Nepal has its own type of settlement of its region where we find different religion and caste live together. Many festivals are celebrated according to their culture. It plays very important role in brotherhood and harmony among people living there. Temples and heritages are found according to their culture where they worship their god and pray for prosperity and happiness. Even the habitat effects the culture, according to environment it directly effects the way people live.

Nepal and its environment

The remarkable difference in altitude found in Nepal consequence in a diversity of bio mes, from tropical savannas all along the Indian border, to subtropical broad leaf and coniferous forests in the Hill Region, to temperate broad leaf and coniferous forests on the slopes of the Himalaya, to montane grasslands and shrub lands and rock and ice at the highest elevation.
At the lowest elevations is the Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands ecoregion. These form a assortment with the Himalayan subtropical broad leaf forests, which occur from 500 to 1,000 meters (1,600 to 3,300 ft) and include the Inner Terai Valleys. Himalayan subtropical pine forests occur between 1,000 and 2,000 meters (3,300 and 6,600 ft).
Above these elevations, the bio-geography of Nepal is normally separated from east to west by the Gandaki River. Eco-regions to the east tend to receive more rainfall and to be more species-rich. Those to the west are drier with fewer species.