Getting your period is a big deal for every girl. It means you're becoming a woman. It even means you could get pregnant.

But in Nepal, it's an even bigger deal.

Because suddenly there are lots of things you're not allowed to do like cook or worship and in some parts of Nepal getting

your period means becoming an outcast and untouchable.

What the ked has you know is When I first got my period I did not know what it was I said to

when I first got my period I did not know what it was I said to my friends

this has happened to me what should I do they said you've become an

outsider you have to go far from home I ran away and hids are still deeply taboo here in Nepal, and in this program we'll be traveling to the mountains

of the Far West to discover why some people are so scared of menstruating women that they won't even

let them inside the house.

Men's real blood is a kind of poison. So if you let that kind of a woman in the kitchen, it's not hygienic.

My name is Divia Shrester. I have recently graduated and I live with my parents in Kathmandu.

I'm Nirmala Limbu and I grew up in a village in the far east of Nepal, but now I live in

Kathmandu as well.

Diva and I often talk about periods because it is such a big issue here.

Across the country there are many different menstrual restrictions and taboos from not being allowed to enter

the kitchen to not eating dairy to chaupady where women are banished from their

homes and sleep in a hut instead. We wanted to see this for ourselves.

What it is like to help to sleep out for four days every month.

We hear that a village in the district of Bajang in the far west of Nepal has been declared chow-free, meaning that

chow-pudi has been eradicated. So that is where we are headed.

Our trip will take us to some of the most remote parts of the country where the rules around

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