In this November 30, 2018 photo, an Indian artist paints a wall with traditional Mithila art at the newly built Janakpur train station in Nepal from where a new 34 kilometers (21 miles) long rail line runs to Jay Nagar in the Indian state of Bihar. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





A Tamang shaman holds her drum with a picture of Goddess Maha Kali as she participates during the Sonam Lhosar in Kathmandu, Nepal February 5, 2019. Sonam Lhosar that occurs around the same time as the Chinese New Year marks the New Year of the Pig for the Tamang people, an ethnic indigenous group living in Nepal. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Mahouts cross the Rapti River on their return home after collecting food for elephants in Sauraha, Chitwan, Nepal on December 30, 2018. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Barcroft Images)





Monkeys huddle to keep warm at the Swayambhunath Stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, January 7, 2019. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





Nepali volunteers and school children tie up recycled plastic bags to make a sculpture representing the Dead Sea in a bid to set a new world record for the largest sculpture made out of recycled plastic bags in Kathmandu on December 5, 2018. Some 100,000 plastic bags were used in the sculpture, in a bid to break the previous record made in 2012 in Singapore using 68,000 plastic bags. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)





Tharu girls in traditional clothes participate in a rally to mark the opening of the 15th Elephant Festival in Sauraha, Nepal, a tourism hub in the southwest of the country on December 26, 2018. (Photo by Sunil Sharma/Xinhua News Agency/Barcroft Images)





A Nepalese Hindu devotee sprinkles water and offer money on the feet of a priest as at the part of the ritual on the bank of the river Hanumante during the Madhav Narayan festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal, Thursday, January 24, 2019. During this festival, devotees recite holy scriptures dedicated to Hindu goddess Swasthani and Lord Shiva. Unmarried women pray to get a good husband while those married pray for the longevity of their husbands by observing a month-long fast. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





A Buddhist nun attends the last day of the Drubchen Puja at Nagi Gumba, Monastry in Shivapuri National park, outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, early 22 January 2019. Hundreds of Buddhist followers from across the country and outside Nepal gather at the monastery premises to receive blessings from Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist teacher and meditation master, along with other Rinpoche as they believe that their all sins, bad luck and diseases will be cured. Annually during mid-January, nuns and monks conduct Drubchen mass worshipping for eight nights and nine days continuously at Nagi Gumba starting this year from 14 January 2019. Nagi Gumba is a monastery in Shivapuri National Park exclusively run by nuns. During this mass worshipping, the nuns and monks worship for a long life and for the peace of deceased nuns and monks who are believed to turn into birds and animals in next life. (Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA/EFE)





Nepalese mahout take an elephant for a ride during the first sunrise of 2019 at Chitwan National Park, Nepal, 01 January 2019. (Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA/EFE)





A Nepalese female youth participates in a physical training session, organized by the Salute Gurkha private institute, in Kathmandu, Nepal, 03 December 2018. Hundreds of female youth from across the country between the ages of 18 to 21 years old started an eight month-long private training programme in various training institutes in Nepal. The elite regiment of Brigade of Gurkhas under the British Army will have its first female soldier recruits in 2020, ending male domination of the unit for more than 200 years. Since 1947, the British government has been appointing Nepalese youths to the British Army. (Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA/EFE)





Nepalese ethnic Tharu community women in traditional attire arrive for Maghi festival celebrations, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, January 15, 2019. The festival marks the New Year of the Tharus which is one the major ethnic groups in Nepal. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





Hindu devotees worship a cow during the Tihar festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, November 7, 2018. Cows are considered sacred to Hindus and are worshipped during the festival, one of the most important Hindu festivals that is also dedicated to the worship of Hindu goddess of wealth Lakshmi. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





A man offers prayers by circling around the dome of Boudhanath Stupa, a UNESCO world heritage site famous among Buddhist devotees and tourists, in Kathmandu, Nepal January 3, 2019. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Devotees gather near a fire to keep warm as they prepare to take part for the Swasthani Brata Katha festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal on January 21, 2019. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Devotees offer prayers by rolling on the ground during the Swasthani Brata Katha festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal on January 21, 2019. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A woman tries to catch snowflakes with her tongue during a snowfall on Chandragiri Hills in Kathmandu, Nepal on January 23, 2019. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Devotees offer prayers before taking a holy bath in the Bagmati River at Pashupatinath Temple during the Swasthani Brata Katha festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, February 4, 2019. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A man dressed in traditional attire holds a drum above his head as he sings and dances during the Sonam Lhosar in Kathmandu, Nepal February 5, 2019. Sonam Lhosar that occurs around the same time as the Chinese New Year marks the New Year of the Pig for the Tamang people, an ethnic indigenous group living in Nepal. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





In this Thursday, January 24, 2019, file photo, Nepalese Hindu devotees roll on the ground as part of a ritual during the Madhav Narayan festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal. During this festival, devotees recite holy scriptures dedicated to Hindu goddess Swasthani and Lord Shiva. Unmarried women pray for a good husband while those married pray for the longevity of their husbands by observing a month-long fast. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





A group of migrant workers from India cover unburned bricks with plastic covers during a winter rain at a brick factory in Lalitpur, Nepal, 07 January 2019. Indian and Nepali seasonal migrant labors started to arrive at brick factories around the Kathmandu valley with the beginning of the winter season. (Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA/EFE)





Nepali Hindu women warm themselves beside fires before taking a bath in the holy Shali River on the outskirts of Kathmandu on January 21, 2019, as Hindu devotees across the country marked the Swasthani Brata Katha festival. Hundreds of married and unmarried women in the Himalayan nation have started a month-long fast for Swasthani Brata Katha festival often marked with an auspicious bathing in water bodies in the hope of a prosperous life and conjugal happiness. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)





In this November 28, 2018 photo, elderly Nepalese people watch the construction of Janakpur train station at Janakpur, from where a new rail line connects to Jay Nagar in the Indian state of Bihar. The competition between two Asian giants, India and China, for influence over tiny Nepal is yielding a bonanza in the form of the Himalayan mountain nation’s first modern railway, and possibly more to come. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





Indian migrant workers cover themselves with a plastic sheet as steam rises at a brick kiln, during rainfall on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, January 23, 2019. Thousands of Indian and Nepali migrant workers come to Kathmandu valley to work in brick factories during the winter season. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





Nepalese devotees release oil lamps in memory of deceased family members during the Balachaturdashi festival at Pashupati temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, 06 December 2018. Thousands people from all over the country have gathered at the Pasupati temple to light the oil lamps at the Bagmati river in the name of their departed beloved ones during the year. The following morning family members will spread Satabij, seven kinds of seeds-paddy, barley, sesame, wheat, gram, maize and finger millet, around the temple premises. Seeds are sown with the belief that the departed souls receive salvation. (Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA/EFE)





Nepalese devotees release oil lamps in memory of deceased family members during the Balachaturdashi festival at Pashupati temple in Kathmandu on December 6, 2018. (Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)