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Nepal

Chitwan is part of the western Terai in Nepal. Tharuland. Well known for it’s Royal National Park where you can explore the wilderness by feet and met easily hundreds of birds species, rhinos, elephants and tigers. Not every encounter will be survived, but mostly people are lucky. When I visited the area in December 2016, I focussed on Rapti-river and the Tharu living there. People are washing themselves, their clothes and cars in the water. Elephants come for a bath frequently. Men are fishing and women harvesting snails. Everyday life. One morning I stood at the riverbank and Salina, 11 years old  invited me spontaneously for tea with her family while she and her brother prepared for school. We couldn’t speak to each other, I only know some nepali words but we found a way to communicate. It was a very happy start into a new morning.