Travelling Notes

PASSPORT AND VISA

All foreign nationals, except Indian citizens, need visas to enter Nepal. Nepalese visa can be obtained from Nepalese Embassy or consulate in your home country or it can also be obtained at Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu upon your arrival. Most of our guests they take Nepal Visa after they arrive at Tribhuvan International Airport. To get Nepalese visa you should bring a valid passport and two passport size photos. The passport must have at least six months of validity.

Some Trekking Permits are required depending on the tour you’ll book. Your travel advisor will inform you before the departure.

The validity and visa fee is as follows:

HEALTH AND VACCINATIONS

If you want avoid high cost, risks and protect your health, we highly raccomend you, before the departure, to stipulate a travel-insurance policy to cover theft, loss and medical problems. There are many type of policies available, pay attention to the details and speak with your advisor about the kind of activities you will be to make in Nepal. Indeed some policies exclude ‘dangerous activities’, which may include climbinig, riding a motorbike and trekking (and definitely bungee jumping and rafting).

CLOTHES AND EQUIPMENT

To travel in Nepal does not require a lot of specific trekking clothes and equipment.

Because of the changing temperatures during the course of a day, we advise to focus yourself on some basic comfortable and breathable clothes, easy to wear in layers.

You can find many of the gears that you need also in some ours local shops or rent them for a little amount of money.

Nevertheless, Gobinda always considers your safety, so we advise you to do all trekking route with full equipment according to the trekking routes so please prepare the below trekking gears:

SLEEPING BAG: if you are planning to do tea house based trekking in any Himalayan region of Nepal, we remind you that the guest house will be made of either stone and mud or wood, does it means the room will be cold. We recommend you to check if your sleeping bag is enough to warm you. Please be sure that can be enough at – 10-degree centigrade temperature.

DOWN JACKET: the dining hall of guest houses will be without the heater so when you sitting and sipping your hot drinks or resting in the dining hall you may feel cold so also your down jacket need to be enough warm at couple of minus degrees but light and windproof jacket will be enough while you walking.

TREKKING SHOES: we need to cross many small streams or snowy,ice-trail so trekking shoes need to be water proof and if you have light shoes would be good idea for the trek.

MEDICAL KIT BOX: trekking advisor always carries the medical kit box, but sometimes the local medicine doesn’t suit with the foreigner needs, so if you bring yourselves basic medicine,  you would be satisfied to use them and you will be more safe.

OTHERS IMPORTANT CLOTHES AND ACCESSORIES: apart from the above things, trekkers needs to bring a couple of trousers, T-shirts, a couple of socks, gloves, a warm wool hat, warm inner trousers, sun cream and lipstick, a flashlight, the sunglasses, the trekking pole and personal hygiene items as toothbrush and toothpaste or other things that you are using in daily life.

Complete checklist

SAFETY IN NEPAL

Some people after the earthquake, have asked if it safe to go to Nepal to go trekking. On 9th June 2015 the Nepal Tourism Board declared the country was “ready to welcome visitors” once again. Most of the district and the trekking areas of Nepal were not damage by the Earthquake and on 15 June 2015 authorities also re-opened 7 UNESCO listed heritage sites to the public. Recently the Tourism Ministry has extend the climbing permits of hundreds of mountanieers to bring foward their missions on Everest.

The tourist sector ist he largest contributor to the Nepalese economy, and our people and village will be affected on their economy if travellers stop to come in Nepal.

Beside the environmental concerns, Nepal is a very safe place where to travel, more than most of others countries around the globe. We have great respect for our guests! So mountain lovers and travellers around the world are always welcome.

TRAVEL INSURANCE

If you want avoid high cost, risks and protect your health, we highly raccomend you, before the departure, to stipulate a travel-insurance policy to cover theft, loss and medical problems. There are many type of policies available, pay attention to the details and speak with your advisor about the kind of activities you will be to make in Nepal. Indeed some policies exclude ‘dangerous activities’, which may include climbinig, riding a motorbike and trekking (and definitely bungee jumping and rafting).