Before I went for the rafting and Chitwan National Park, I
applied for the Indian Visa. I reckoned if at all I have a chance to get India
visa (considering the ordeal last year when I was deported back to London),
then Nepal is it. I had checked the visa procedure in Thailand, Singapore and
Malaysia as well, but in each of those countries the application included a question
“Have you ever been refused an entry to India or deported from India?”. Well, I think that by saying YES to that
question one will get rejected despite any logical reasoning on the next line “Explain
the circumstances”.
In Nepal however visa form does not include such a
questions. Just fill in a form which they will fax to the embassy in your home
country to clear you. After a week they should have an answer, so you should
come back and then you pay 40 euros, give your passport to them, come back in
the evening and get the passport back with the visa affixed. So all in all you spend about 12 hours waiting
in various queues, but it is still fairly reasonable for Asian standards.
I went through this procedure and surprisingly was given a
green light. Nonetheless I did not storm towards the border immediately. Not
towards the border of India at least. Instead I gave in to the calling of the
mountains once again and booked a trek into one of the restricted areas of
Nepal – Manaslu region.
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