Nepal visa from Bangalore

Good news — Indians don’t need a visa for Nepal at all, thanks to the 1950 treaty. The one thing families trip up on: for an air arrival into Kathmandu, carry your passport. Voter ID is really meant for the land borders, and airport immigration is far smoother with a passport in hand. If the children are travelling, carry their passports too — a birth certificate alone can create awkward questions at the counter. Sort the ID out before you leave and the arrival is genuinely painless.

For a normal Nepal trip, no. Kathmandu sits around 1,400m and Pokhara even lower at about 800m — nowhere near the heights where altitude sickness kicks in, so parents and kids are fine. The catch is the mountain flying: Everest scenic flights and the Pokhara hops get delayed or cancelled by mountain weather, sometimes at short notice. Book them for early morning when skies are clearest, and keep a buffer day so one cloudy dawn doesn’t mean missing that Himalaya view entirely.

Here’s the important bit: Indian ₹500 and ₹2000 notes are not accepted in Nepal — only ₹100 notes are. So don’t rely on your big notes. Change some money into Nepalese Rupees on arrival for markets, taxis and small eateries, and use cards at the better hotels and restaurants. UPI works only patchily, so don’t count on it. Carry a mix of cash and card, keep some ₹100 notes handy for the border stretches, and you’ll manage smoothly throughout.

Kathmandu can get quite dusty and polluted in the dry season, and it’s fair to think about the elders and little ones. It’s not a dealbreaker — just plan around it. Carry a few masks, keep windows up in traffic, and don’t pack every day full of city sightseeing. Balance the Kathmandu time with cleaner air at Pokhara or Nagarkot, where you get green hills and open skies. Break the trip up that way and everyone stays comfortable, without the city air wearing anyone down.

The clearest skies come in October–November and again March–April — that’s when the Annapurna and Everest ranges show themselves properly. Avoid the monsoon months, when cloud simply blots them out and you fly all that way for grey. As for the 2015 earthquake, Nepal has long since rebuilt; the heritage sites in the Kathmandu Valley are restored and the trails are safe and busy again. Come in the clear season and you’ll get the mountain views that make the whole trip worthwhile.