Newar girls attended Bel Bibaha ceremony during the chariot festival of Nala Machhendranath in Kavrepalanchowk district of eastern Nepal. It is a ceremony in Newar community of Nepal, where pre-adolescent girls are married to the Bel fruit, fruit of wood apple tree. (Photo by Archana Shrestha/Pacific Press)

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