Namaste! Welcome to the Mountain Countryl. It is still one of the few countries in the world where you can escape from the excesses of western civilization and yet where tourist amenities are sufficiently developed for your stay to be comfortable. Outside Kathmandu, its teeming capital, Nepal is a land of remote mountain villages, where people survive by growing their own food on the thousands of hill terraces that scale even the steepest slopes. Mechanized farming is unheard of here; the fields are ploughed by water-buffalo and ox the corn harvested and threshed by hand and ground by water mills.
