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RFID-blocking neck wallet — Passport, permits and cash, on your body
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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.

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What you get

  • 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

What it costs you

  • Sweaty against skin on a hot approach
  • RFID blocking solves a mostly theoretical problem
  • Awkward to reach under three layers

Do not buy this if: Nobody. Even if you dislike them, carry permits somewhere better than a jacket pocket.

The alternatives

Everything else we recommend in documents & money, including the ones we think suit a different trekker.

USD 30 / 50 / 125 for 15 / 30 / 90 daysFree advice that saves an hour

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.

Skip it ifNationalities that need a visa in advance. Check your own before assuming visa on arrival applies.

Nothing to buy — this is the tip, not a product.