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Documents & Money

Permits, cash, and keeping both dry.

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RFID-blocking neck wallet — Passport, permits and cash, on your body
Best document carry

Passport, permits and cash, on your body

RFID-blocking neck wallet

Under-clothing, RFID-lined

Your TIMS card and national park permit get checked repeatedly on trail and a lost passport in Nepal is a week in Kathmandu — the RFID lining is largely theatre, but the "attached to your body" part is not.

Permits reachable at a checkpoint without unpacking

Survives a bus roof, a hotel room and a crowded Thamel street

Holds the USD cash your visa fee needs

Sweaty against skin on a hot approach

RFID blocking solves a mostly theoretical problem

Awkward to reach under three layers

Not for you if: Nobody. Even if you dislike them, carry permits somewhere better than a jacket pocket.

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The visa-on-arrival queue takes cash, and it is fussy about it

Clean USD notes for the visa desk

Kathmandu visa on arrival is cash, and the desk refuses torn, written-on or pre-2013 USD notes — bring crisp bills in the right denominations and you are through in twenty minutes instead of hunting an ATM airside.

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