Dress

Women that travel to Nepal can wear short sleeve, long sleeve, sleeveless tee-shirts or dress shirts. -Skirts should be about knee length or longer and if worn is very much appreciated by the locals. -Women do not usually wear shorts here but if you choose to, make sure they are longer shorts but definitely do not wear shorts in a temple or religious site. -It is not necessarily not-allowed to wear a spaghetti-strap tank, tube-top-like shirt, shorts, or revealing clothes but you will probably be very well noticed - and possibly talked about in a negative way. -It is recommended for women traveling through Nepal to wear slightly more conservative clothing. Men that travel to Nepal can wear almost anything. Short sleeve, long sleeve, sleeveless tee-shirts or dress shirts. -Shorts or long pants it does not matter. -You should always have a shirt on and if it buttons up, it should have all the buttons fastened. -Wearing shorts in a temple may be disrespectful. -Just dress appropriately for your activity and if you are not sure if what you are wearing is "right" just observe local traditions.

Visiting Religious Sites

Goutama Buddha

Bhaktapur Darbar Square

-Do not eat, smoke or be loud at religious sites.

-If you travel to one of Nepal's popular stupas or temples, there may be an entrance fee for foreigners. It is usually small. There are a few rules written on walls for you in specific temples.

-Pay attention to signs.

-Some temples only allow Hindus to enter inside.

-Walk clockwise around stupas or places of worship.

-Never touch or step over offerings like red powder or rice/flowers.

-When you travel to certain places of worship you may or may not be permitted to take photos or film these sacred places.

- Make sure to take note if you are supposed to take your shoes off before you enter.

-For the most part, just be aware of your surroundings and pay attention to what the locals are doing and any writing on the wall.

-Men and women should not wear shorts in any temple. More conservative clothing is respectful.

Manners

-One old Nepali peeve is to not share plates of food with your friends/family. It used to be thought of as rude to give food or take food from your friends’ plate. In other parts of the world this is very normal, and is mostly accepted now in Nepal, but some places still find it offensive.

-Do not take a bite of some food item or touch your lips to a bottle and then offer some to your Nepali or home-country friend. Actually for those that will travel around Nepal, you will see a local taking a drink from a water bottle by tilting their heads back and drinking it without it touching their mouths. This way more people can share the bottle because it is not contaminated.

-If you want to take a photo of someone, ask them first. How would you feel if someone came up to you and started taking your photo as if you were an animal without respectfully asking you? Even if your travel buddy asked it is polite that you also ask.

-This might sound like common sense but do not take photos of people bathing or going to the bathroom. A large number of Nepali people do in fact bathe on the side of the road (not usually in the large cities). Even though they are bathing in front of complete strangers, does not mean that they are doing it for you to watch.

-Spitting is quite normal here. You will see men, women, and children spitting on the sidewalks here. The same goes for littering. You might see a local throwing something on the ground, but to help keep Nepal beautiful it is best to dispose of trash in designated trash bins or the community trash piles.

-Never show affection in public. Although some of the younger generations of couples hold hands in public, it is still frowned upon. It is more common to see friends- girl and another girl, and a boy and another boy holding hands.

-Just for an extra fact, a Nepali person will never tell you if they think you are being rude. If they told you that you were being offensive, it would make them rude.

-Do not step over a person. That said, do not make other people step over you. For example if you have your legs stretched out and someone wishes to pass, move them out of their way.

-Do not use your left hand as it is known as your bathroom hand.

-Give items and receive with two hands (like giving or receiving a cup of tea).

-Do not point your feet, especially if they are dirty, at people it is considered to be the lowest and dirtiest part of a person. Also do not point your finger at anything, rather use your whole hand.

-Do not ask for or give gifts (even as small and seemingly insignificant as a pen or candy) to the local children.

-If your vacation involves travel through the older (could be more remote areas) do not buy antiques or anything made by/of an animal product, flora or fauna, most of these are protected and there could also be a government punishment.

-Unless it is an older person or has some sort of disability that makes them unable to get a job, do not give to beggars, it only promotes this behavior. Do not give food to children, they do have a home.

-When shopping do not overpay- pay fair prices.

Tips For Travel In Nepal

1. Manners
2. Money Exchange
3. Religious Sites
4. Medicine
5. Transportation
6. Dress
7. Visiting The Jungle
8. Food/Drink
9. Shopping
10. Communication
11. Business Hours
12. Electricity
    

Nepali River & Greenery

Nepali River & GreeneryNepal's vegetation and habitats are vast, spanning from the subtropical to arctic and support 2% of the worlds flowering plants, near 600 indigenous plant families and over 300 species of orchids.If that's not enough, Nepal is home to 8% of the worlds birds, more than 850 species, along with 4% of all earth's mammals and also 11 of 15 families of butterflies, containing a staggering 500 unique species. Travel in Nepal certainly is not short on adventure.From high altitude deserts to lush jungles, it's all here in Nepal. Within the borders of Nepal are over 250 Himalayan peaks over 6000 meters, and 22 of the 31 Himalayan peaks over 7600 meters. Nepal's terrain is also host to 8 of the 10 tallest mountain peaks in the world, including that of THE highest, Sagarmatha (Mt Everest).

About Travel in Nepal

Nepal travel is fast becoming a major world pastime. Despite being closed to outsiders for centuries, travel to Nepal and Kathmandu has emerged as a prime travel destination on the world stage.
Nepal is a Hindu and Buddhist country sprawled across the spine of the Himalayan range. A landlocked nation, located in Southern Asia, between India and China, Nepal is known to many travelers to be a land of extremes, unmatched mountain splendor, and a travel mecca for the culturally inquisitive. For the curious traveler it offers a wide variety of habitat, climate, elevation, people culture and numerous time worn temples.
With Kathmandu as its capitol, and Pokhara the hub of outdoor adventure activity, Nepal is a small country, but what it lacks in size, it makes up with variety for which there is simply no equal.

Tourism as a Business

Tourism is big business in Nepal. Local people can benefit and develop their lives out of poverty with tourism, despite the fact that tourists can dilute the culture and often damage the local area. Tourism can lead to development, such as healthcare and cleaner water, and this can be good if tourism is sustained long enough for people to demand those services, but again many disadvantages can come with this. The industry can also act as a substitute to other methods of income, such as agriculture or secondary industry, which may start to struggle.

The Mejor Problems of Tourism

Tourism began in Nepal as people discovered the land around the tallest peak in the world, Mt. Everest. Development around Mt. Everest was slow to start, however the scenery waiting to be viewed would soon attract many tourists. So tourism began: people had ambitions to climb the slopes of the great mountain, and, as always, local people began to expand their living to fit that of the tourists and began to, in some areas, become richer and more developed. However, visitors would share their culture, good or bad, and this had some major disadvantages, principally litter. Locals also began to, as they used more developed equipment, drop litter on the slopes that no-one wanted to take down. This includes oxygen bottles, bottles of water, snack bars and tissues etc – all of what we enjoy at home, but without any bins. Landfill sites were set up.
Other problems include the volume of tourists wearing the mountain away, which causes mudslides through erosion which can be deadly for lower communities. Trees are cut down at an alarming rate, adding to this problem – a tourist uses three times more wood than a Sherpa. In the towns, toilet facilities involve no sewage system, and therefore local water, which the people are used to it being clean, is neglected and polluted with human waste. Locals, who can’t afford the bottled water that tourists are buying have no real choice about using the polluted water and suffer the increased health costs and deadly diseases. Now tourists are buying and pushing up the price of products that the locals are selling, agriculture in growing potatoes for the local population has decreased and problems have occurred because of the price rise: locals can no longer buy their community’s food and often must either eat less or find another way to make a living. Large non-localised organisations often refuse responsibility concerning waste, forcing local people to clean up to keep the area attractive to tourists.
Due to the ongoing chronic power shortages and political instability, Nepal may face serious consequences in the days to come.

More About Nepal

Nepal is a country lying between China on the North and India on the South. It is a landlocked country on the collision zone between two plates, so large mountain ranges are formed in the creasing – including the Pahar Hill region and the Mountain region, both with large altitudes and populated valleys. Tourism is especially large in Mount Everest and a large amount of conflict has arisen there – as we will study later. Mountaineers with ambitions to travel, view and climb the spectacular slopes come in their ten thousands. 39% of the GDP comes from agriculture; 76% of people use it as their principle employment. Services (which would include tourism) equal 42% and industry 21%. The lack of natural resources means that agriculture is the main primary industry, while tourism probably the main tertiary. Main exports are clothing, leather, jute goods and grain.
There are lots of places to visit in Nepal. That is why people often term Nepal as "a place where there are more temples than houses". Similarly because of Gods and Goddesses we term it as a place where the number of gods and goddess is more than the population of people.
Inside the Kathmandu Valley, there is lots of sight seeing. For example, you can go to Kasthamandap which was build of one tree, Pashupati nath of the capital and several other temples, historical places and monuments.

About Nepal

Nepal

Official name: Kingdom of Nepal

Area:140,800 square kilometers (54,363 square miles)

Highest point on mainland: Mount Everest (8,850 meters/29,035 feet)

Lowest point on land: Kanchana Kaval (70 meters/230 feet)

Hemispheres: Northern and Eastern

Time zone: 5:45 p.m. = noon GMT

Longest distances: 885 kilometers (550 miles) from southeast to northwest; 201

kilometers (125 miles) from northeast to southwest

Land boundaries: 2,926 kilometers (1,818 miles) total boundary length; China 1,236 kilometers (768 miles); India 1,690 kilometers (1,050 miles)

Coastline: None

Territorial sea limits: None

Travel Origins

The historical origins of Travellers as a group has been a subject of academic and popular debate. It was once widely believed that Travellers were descended from landowners or labourers who were made homeless by Oliver Cromwell's military campaign in Ireland and in the 1840s famine. However, their origins may be more complex and difficult to ascertain because through their history the Travellers have left no written records of their own. The closest to a legend of origin known to exist describes the Travellers as descended from a tinsmith who helped build the cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified. According to this tale, Christ cursed the tinsmith's line to wander the earth until Judgment Day; compare Matthew 16:28 and the legend of the Wandering Jew.
Furthermore, not all families of the Travellers date back to the same point in time; some adopted Traveller customs centuries ago while others did so in more modern times, yet all claim ancient origins regardless of noted assumption of the habits and customs.
Dr. Sharon Gmelch, who has studied and written about the Travellers, states that the Dooley Clan is acknowledged by other Travellers as one of the "oldest families on the road". There are also many Irish people surnamed Dooley who are not Travellers.
Irish Travellers are considered to be part of the general Irish population, as indicated by their surnames. Genetic studies by Miriam Murphy, David Croke, and other researchers identified certain genetic diseases such as Galactosemia that are more common in the Irish Traveller population, involving identifiable allelic mutations that are rarer among the rest of the community. Two main hypotheses had arisen, speculating whether: 1) this resulted from marriages made largely within and among the Traveller community, or 2) suggesting descent from either an original Irish carrier long ago with ancestors unrelated to the rest of the Irish population. They concluded that: The fact that Q188R is the sole mutant allele among the Travellers as compared to the non-Traveller group may be the result of a founder effect in the isolation of a small group of the Irish population from their peers as founders of the Traveller sub-population. This would favour the second, endogenous, hypothesis of Traveller origins. No estimate was given for the date of the original mutation, but it is now clear that it mutated from other galactosemia-causing mutations that are found within the larger Irish population.
[edit] Language and customs
Irish Travellers distinguish themselves from the settled communities of the countries in which they live by their own language and customs. The language is known as Shelta, and there are two dialects of this language, Gammon (or Gamin) and Cant. It has been dated back to the eighteenth century, but may be older than that.
Travellers are keen breeders of dogs such as greyhounds and lurchers. They also have a long-standing interest in horse trading, and the main fairs associated with them are held annually at Ballinasloe in Ireland and Appleby in the U.K.

Trekking in Nepal

Nepal is a trekker's paradise. More than 85% of the total population live in rural areas. Although transport and communications have brought about great changes in the lives of the people, many still live a simple rural life. One need not be a mountaineer or experienced walker to trek in different parts of the country. Various tours of trekking are offered, from one to several days. When Colonel Jimmy Robes opened Mountain Travel in 1955, his travel company began the history of trekking in Nepal. The concept was similar to the expedition approach used by mountaineers, with guides, porters & tents. Since 80’s the infrastructures for trekking have developed to a very high standard. Currently, in Nepal, two kinds of trekking are popular- Teahouse or Lodge trekking and Tent Trekking.

History of Nepal Airlines

The airline was established in July 1958 as Royal Nepal Airlines Corporation (RNAC) with one Douglas DC-3. At the beginning its services was limited to Simara, Pokhara, Biratnagar and Indian cities like Patna, Calcutta and Delhi. Soon after, a turboprop Fokker F27 was added to the airline's fleet. Twin Otter and Pilatus Porter aircraft joined the airline's fleet in 1970, allowing access to the more remote and mountainous regions of the Kingdom. After extension of the runway of Kathmandu in 1972, RNA acquired Hawker Siddeley HS-748 and Boeing 727. Two Boeing 757s gradually replaced the airline's Boeing 727s.
In 2003 and 2004 it was reported that the Nepal Government had decided to sell off 49% of its stake in Nepal Airlines to the private sector and hand over management control, while retaining a 51% share. This would provide the investment to get the airline out of the red. Operations have been discontinued to Bangalore, Bombay/Mumbai, Calcutta/Kolkata,Dhaka, Frankfurt, Karachi and London Gatwick.
The former chairman of the virtually bankrupt Nepal Airlines was jailed for massive corruption in February 2005.

Mountain in Nepal

Nepal contains part of the Himalaya, the highest mountain range in the world. Eight of the fourteen eight-thousanders are located in the country, either in whole or shared across a border with Tibet or India.
Contrary to popular belief, the height of a mountain is measured from the base to the apex. Mt. Everest stretches 8848 meters above sea level, but it has a head start due to the general uplift from the Himalayas. The Hawaiian volcano Mauna Kea is 10,314 meters from base to apex, so even though it only reaches to 4205 meters above sea level, it is a bigger mountain than Everest.

About Nepal

Nepal is a landlocked country in Southern Asia, between China and India. It contains eight of the world's 10 highest peaks, including Mount Everest - the world's tallest - on the border with Tibet. It recently was declared a republic and has abolished the monarchy.

Introduction

Travel is the change in location of people on a trip through the means of transport from one location to another. Travel is most commonly for recreation (as part of tourism or to visit friends and family), for business or for commuting; but may be for numerous other reasons, such as migration, fleeing war, etc. Travel may occur by walking or human-powered mode, or through mechanical vehicles, either as private or public transport.[citation needed]
Travel may be local, regional, national or international. In some countries, non-local internal travel may require an internal passport, while international travel typically requires a passport and visa.
The word originates from the Middle English word travailen ("to toil"), which comes from the Old French word travailler ("travail"). A person who travels is called a traveler (U.S.) or traveller (UK).