Nepal is open for the autumn season, and glad you are coming.
Everest, Annapurna and Thorong La are open. Langtang treks stay paused while the Rasuwa road is rebuilt; Mustang and Manang roads are still being repaired.
Nepal News
Permit fees, restricted-area updates and trekking regulations.
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Permits & Rules
Rara and Phoksundo are Nepal's two legendary remote lakes, and almost nobody treks to both. Here's the real difference in cost, permits and days.
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Everest's first mountain rangers weighed 9.5 tonnes of waste this spring, and 1.76 tonnes of it was human waste carried down in bags.
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Upper Mustang stayed shut to foreign visitors until 1992. Nepal has now dropped the fee that made a short visit cost the same as a ten-day one.
Breaking Permits & Rules
A new Department of Immigration plan would let visitors register once on a mobile app and skip the physical passport for domestic flights, money changers and trekking agencies — but for now, the paper one still needs to stay in your daypack.
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Permits alone run from $38 to over $200 depending which trail you pick — a real, route-by-route budget breakdown, not one average number for the whole country.
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The floods damaged roads and the Langtang gateway — not the permit counters. ACAP, TIMS and the national-park permits are all still issued normally; here is what actually changed, and what a Langtang permit holder should do.
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A March 2026 Department of Immigration order scrapped the two-person minimum for Nepal's 13 restricted trekking districts — verified against the government's own notice. Here is exactly what changed, and what still has not.
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Amid headlines about Everest's climbing costs rising, we checked the actual trekking permit fees against Nepal's official sources — ACAP, TIMS, Sagarmatha, Manaslu and Langtang are all exactly where they were last year.
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Nepal announced a five-year digital nomad visa in May 2025 with a one-year target. It has not launched yet. What was proposed, and what to do meanwhile.
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Nepal scrapped the decades-old flat $500 / 10-day Upper Mustang permit for a pay-as-you-go $50-per-day model. Short trips to Lo Manthang just got dramatically cheaper.
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A Chinese drone can now haul a season's oxygen bottles up the Khumbu Icefall in ten minutes flat. When an American rival tried to join it this spring, Nepal grounded them both.
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Nepal’s licensed-guide rule reshaped independent trekking. Where you can and cannot go solo in 2026, and why the Everest region is the exception.
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Fewer than 1,000 foreign trekkers reach Kanchenjunga's base camps each year against roughly 40,000 at Everest's — the honest, permit-by-permit breakdown of which trek actually fits your trip.
Breaking Permits & Rules
Lawmakers want Everest hopefuls to summit two Nepali peaks above 8,000m first, plus new insurance floors for guides and a wage fund — here is exactly what is now before Parliament, and what is still just a rule already in force.
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Bhutan charges $100 a night before you've booked a guide or a hotel; Nepal charges about that once, total, for the whole trip. Here's what really separates the two Himalayan trekking countries.
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Same region, wildly different experience: one route just got easier for solo trekkers to permit, the other has a paved road creeping up its most famous valley. Here's how they really compare.
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Home to roughly 300 people who still practise a religion older than Buddhism, Nar Phu was closed to every outsider for decades. Here's what it costs to see it now, and why the rules are what they are.
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To protect the Khumbu, single-use plastic bottles are restricted above Namche Bazaar on the Everest trail. Here's what international trekkers should pack instead.
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Nepal's old paper trekking card has quietly vanished from Everest and Annapurna — but it is alive and enforced elsewhere. Here is what you actually need this year.
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Climbing a Nepal trekking peak needs an NMA permit, a registered agency and a guide. Here's how the permits and costs work for Island, Mera and Lobuche East in 2026.
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From March 2026 you can apply for Nepal's restricted-area permits online before you even land — and the fine for trekking without a licensed guide is now NPR 12,000. Here's the new system.
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Chinese passport holders still get a gratis visa on arrival in Nepal in 2026. Paired with the new direct Shenzhen flight, a short Himalayan trip has never been simpler.
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What does Everest Base Camp actually cost in 2026 — on your own or with a guide? An honest, line-by-line breakdown of permits, Lukla flights, guide, porter and daily costs, in USD, INR and EUR.
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Nepal's new Tourism Bill will require every Everest hopeful to prove a 7,000m Nepali summit, work with Nepali guides and carry out 8kg of waste. Here's what's confirmed — and what's still pending.
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Nepal's TIMS card is no longer a one-size-fits-all rule. In 2026 it's gone in Everest, barely enforced in Annapurna, and still required (now digital) in Langtang — here's the real map.
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Until July 2027, Nepal has waived all climbing royalties on 97 Himalayan peaks across Karnali and Sudurpaschim — a once-in-a-generation opening for adventurous climbers willing to go remote.
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Since April 2023, and enforced for 2026, foreign trekkers must trek with a guide from a registered agency on national-park and conservation-area routes.
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