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forced stop beside the track while a bus or truck barges its way through . Another opportunity to take in the surrounds and see life as it is happening .
The rushed ways of the western world are yet to penetrate this part of Nepal , there ’ s a level of contentment as the people go about doing what is required . The landscapes display a sense of community where every individual is working for a common good , a good that sees the community thrive and every individual is treated as an equal of sorts .
Once hearing a fellow traveller describe this style of living as the ultimate form of socialism verging on communism it was hard to disagree yet , here amongst the hillside terraces of western Nepal was something that if communism proved that maybe this was what it was all about and something that did work , a community of people ensuring that everyone is looked
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