Nepal is one of the cheapest countries in the world for mobile data. A local SIM card costs under NPR 200. A month of 4G data costs NPR 500–1,000. And unlike almost every other practical question about Nepal travel, this one has a genuinely simple answer that takes five minutes to act on. The complication and there is one is…
Nepal has over 3,000 registered trekking companies. Some are excellent. Some are mediocre. Some are scams operating from a rented desk in Thamel with a WhatsApp number and a stock-photo website. In April 2026, a Kathmandu district court began recording statements from 32 people connected to one of the most audacious trekking scams in Nepal’s history. Agency owners, helicopter operators,…
Here is the thing nobody tells you clearly enough when you book an Everest Base Camp trek: the flight to Lukla probably does not leave from Kathmandu. During peak trekking seasons spring (March 15 to May 15) and autumn (September 25 to November 30) virtually all flights to Lukla operate from Manthali Airport in Ramechhap district, 132 kilometres east of…
The honest answer is yes. Nepal is safe to travel in 2026. The slightly longer honest answer is: yes, with the same situational awareness you would apply in any unfamiliar city, plus specific preparation for the altitude risks and natural disaster context that are unique to Nepal. Most safety concerns travelers read about before visiting Nepal the 2025 protests, the…
There is a version of the Everest region that most trekkers never see. They fly into Lukla, walk north on the same trail as the fifty thousand people who trekked to Base Camp last year, stand at Kala Patthar in the dark, take their photograph, and walk back down the same path they came up. The experience is extraordinary. It…
Nepal has quietly added a new name to its trekking map. And unlike most things in Himalayan trekking, this one costs almost nothing to reach. On April 30, 2026, a four-member team led by Milan Tamang of the Jugal Rural Municipality Tourism Development Committee successfully summited a newly identified trekking peak at 5,570 metres in the Jugal Himalayan range of…
Nepal is not waiting for tourists to find it. It is going to find them. As disruptions ripple through global air travel partially driven by escalating tensions in West Asia that have forced airlines to reroute long-haul flights and added significant cost and time to international journeys Nepal’s tourism establishment is recalibrating its strategy. Quietly but deliberately, the Nepal Tourism…
Nepal’s Department of Tourism has issued an urgent directive to all trekking agencies this week: stop selling overnight stay packages at Everest Base Camp immediately or face penalties including fines and licence revocation. The crackdown comes mid-season during the busiest weeks of the spring 2026 Everest climbing calendar after authorities discovered a growing number of trekking companies openly marketing “EBC…
On April 29, 2001, at around four in the afternoon, Babu Chhiri Sherpa told the people at Camp II that he was going to take some photographs nearby. He had climbed Everest ten times. He held two world records on the mountain. He was 35 years old, with six daughters at home in Kathmandu and a school he had fought…
You’ve booked your flights. Everest is calling. But before you picture yourself on the Annapurna Circuit or wandering the alleys of Kathmandu’s Thamel district, there’s one thing standing between you and Nepal the visa counter at Tribhuvan International Airport. The good news? Nepal’s visa on arrival system is one of the most straightforward in Asia. With the right preparation, the…