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Chitwan is the name not only of Nepal's most visited national park but also of the surrounding dun valley and administrative district. The name means "Heart of the Jungle" - a description that, sadly, now holds true only for the lands protected within the park and a few designated community forests. Yet the rest of the valley , though it's been reduced to a flat, furrowed plain, still provides fascinating vignettes of a rural lifestyle that's different again from the hill-clinging existence of upland Nepal. Really ugly development is confined to the wayside conurbation of Narayanghat/Bharatpur - and even this has left the nearby holy site of Devghat unscathed.
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