{"id":451,"date":"2015-09-01T15:04:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T06:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/u26884.com\/?p=451"},"modified":"2016-01-24T11:09:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T02:09:11","slug":"namaste-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u26884.com\/en-US\/traveling\/asia\/nepal\/namaste-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"Namaste, Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came to Nepal I didn\u2019t have any image so much.<br \/>\nBy the way, I think that the staff in \u2018Indian curry\u2019 restaurants are Nepal people..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One problem happened in immigration office of the border city, Panitanki.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t have entry stamp in India.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve known it. I\u2019ve worried about it ever since entry in India.<br \/>\nThe staff in immigration office talked to himself with serious face, \u201cBig problem&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\nOh, I might be in no good situation?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The result was \u2026 I got expiration stamp after the staff called somebody on the phone. I guess that it was because I had entry stamp of Sikkim.<\/p>\n<p>But then why could I get the stamp of Sikkim?<br \/>\nNext I got my VISA in Nepal border. I worried that I can pay the fee by Indian currency or not, but it worked. The fare of VISA for stay for 3 months was 6,700INR(100USD). Hmmm\u2026 expensive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By the way, when I tried to go to Ilum, I almost got their harsh lesson.<\/p>\n<p>The government official tourism staff (he called himself) talked to me.<br \/>\n**<br \/>\nToday the strike happened, so you can\u2019t catch any bus. You can reach Ilum by only taxi.<br \/>\nI can prepare taxi for you. The price would be 3,100NPR.<br \/>\n**<br \/>\nI thought that it was too expensive compared with the market in India. Once I tried to look for other solutions. Then I couldn\u2019t find any bus, but found sharing jeep to Ilum by 300NPR.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know that every government official people can do like that here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By the way, it was hard to stay in the jeep. Why were all passengers 18 people? I think that the maximum of the number was around 13 in North East India.\u00a0Incidentally the size of the jeep was less than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=toyota%20surf&amp;es_th=1&amp;rct=j\" target=\"_blank\">SURF made by TOYOTA<\/a> a little.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came to Nepal I didn\u2019t have any image so much. By the way, I think that the staff in \u2018Indian curry\u2019 restaura [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"373","footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[66,68],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nepal","tag-immigration","tag-welcome","en-US"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u26884.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u26884.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u26884.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u26884.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u26884.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u26884.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/u26884.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u26884.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u26884.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u26884.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u26884.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}