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…
Every travel guide about Nepal says the same thing about June, July, and August: avoid. They are not wrong. But they are not giving you the whole picture either. The monsoon season in Nepal runs from the second week of June through the first week of September. For most of the country the Everest region, the Annapurna trails, Langtang, the…
Every trekking agency in Nepal will tell you the same thing about Everest Base Camp Trek Difficulty: “Anyone can do it. No technical experience required. Just one foot in front of the other.” They are not exactly lying. But they are not telling you the whole truth either. Here is the whole truth: around 60% of trekkers return before completing…
The Kathmandu to Pokhara question is the one every Nepal traveler eventually faces. The distance between Nepal’s capital and its adventure capital is only 200 kilometres but between those 200 kilometres lie three completely different travel experiences, four price brackets, and one decision that will meaningfully shape how your trip begins. This guide gives you exactly what most comparison articles…