Safety & Advisories
Washington kept Nepal at Level 2 on 31 August and added a Level 4 do-not-travel zone covering only the Rasuwagadhi–Timure–Syabrubesi corridor in…
By Laxman Rawal · Aug 31, 2026
The United States updated its travel advice for Nepal on 31 August and added a Level 4 "do not travel" designation to one corridor: the Rasuwagadhi—Timure—Syabrubesi area of Rasuwa district and the Nepal—China border crossing, including settlements along the…
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It covers the flood corridor and its downstream river settlements, and nothing else. Syabrubesi is the road-head for Langtang, and Timure and Rasuwagadhi sit on the border road to Kerung in Tibet. That is the ground the 26 August flood came down, and it is…
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Level 2 is where Nepal already sat, and the reason given is civil unrest rather than the flood. The advice notes that the demonstrations which began in September 2025 have since stopped, but warns that protests can start with little warning, may turn violent…
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Nepal's National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority put the confirmed death toll at 903 as of 9am on 31 August, with 4,247 people still missing. These are provisional figures and they have moved every day since the flood. The geography of them…
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The Kathmandu Post reported 644 tourists listed as missing as of the evening of Thursday 28 August, drawn from a long list of nationalities. The seven largest groups are below. Treat every figure as provisional: missing lists in a disaster are built from…
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If you are booked into Langtang, Gosaikunda or the Tamang Heritage trail, you are inside or adjacent to the Level 4 zone and you should not travel there now. We have paused bookings on those routes ourselves and we are not taking new ones until access is…
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No. Nepal remains at Level 2, exercise increased caution. The Level 4 "do not travel" designation applies only to the Rasuwagadhi—Timure—Syabrubesi corridor of Rasuwa district, the Nepal—China border crossing, and flood-hit settlements along the Bhote Koshi…
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No. The Khumbu is a different drainage on the other side of the country and is not named anywhere in the advice.
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Neither is in the Level 4 zone. The practical issue in that direction was road access rather than safety, and it has eased: the Prithvi Highway reopened at Krishnabhir in Dhading to one-way traffic on 13 September, with full operation from the 17th.
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Ask your insurer directly. Cover commonly falls away in an area under an official do-not-travel warning, which is a reason to move your route rather than to hope. Nothing here is insurance advice.
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The NDRRMA publishes the confirmed toll and missing count. We track the running numbers in our live flood updates , and the wider aid picture is in our report on the US aid pledge . Sources: US travel advice for Nepal as reported by OnlineKhabar English and…
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