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This was before the serpentine Tribhuvan Highway linking the capital to the Indian border was constructed in 1956, and the only way to get to Kathmandu was on foot or to fly. Cars bought mainly by the Rana or Shah nobility were brought to Calcutta by ship, driven sometimes up to Bhimphedi and then carried over the mountains by porters.Dhan Bahadur helped ferry his first car, a Daimler, when he was only 17. He was in a team of 64 other porters and the journey from Bhimphedi to Thankot (see map) took eight days. He would typically receive 5 aana (less than a rupee) as payment, so despite his name, Dhan Bahadur did not get rich carrying cars. - See more at: http://www.kantipur-video.com/videos/the-serpentine-tribhuvan-highway-linking-the-capital/#sth
The cars were secured onto long bamboo poles and bigger cars required up to 96 porters to heave up the trails. “We didn’t even know the model of the cars we were carrying, we just called them 32, 64, 96 depending on the number of people carrying them,” Dhan Bahadur remembers.His only preparation before every journey was to weave two pairs of straw slippers. “A pair was never enough, sometimes we would wear down two pairs of slippers even before we reached Chitlang, and so we had to make more on the way,” Dhan Bahadur recalls. The Tribhuvan Highway followed another route to Kathmandu via Palung, but now the road has arrived even in his home village of Chitlang. - See more at: http://www.kantipur-video.com/videos/the-serpentne-tribhuvan-highway-linking-the-capital/#sthash.QmtBt0AN.dpuf
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