What is the Best way to access your money in Nepal
Personally I think that in Nepal it is never a good idea to rely entirely on ATM’s as apart form the load-shedding (16 hours a day in April 2010) they can often be either out of order or out of money, also you can often only access relatively small amounts of rupee and so have to effect several withdrawals which often rack up quite large bank charges, So, Personally I always take a wedge of travellers cheques backed up with a small amount of cash.As to which currency, Take a small amount of US $’s, these are handy to use buying your Visa (I know that theoretically you can buy this with any exchangeable currency, but $’s are the one that the immigration officials are most used to dealing in and you probably get the best deal using them) Buying snacks en-route to Nepal, using for emergency hard cash in Nepal and then you have the possibility to use up any remainder buying duty-free at...
