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When you get a bottle of bad water while on a hike or a climb, you'll know it. This can be very dangerous while trekking, because you're out in the middle of nowhere and you're thirsty as all (so it's easy to convince yourself that drinking just half a bottle - even if it's contaminated - won't really hurt you). It happened to me and I could taste the difference immediately - I didn't drink more than three swallows before throwing out that water. Thankfully that wasn't enough to get me sick, and I made it to the next village where I bought a replacement bottle. What probably happened with the "bad" one, is they refilled a plastic bottle with regular tap water and then re-sealed the plastic (this can be done by heating a needle and melting the plastic back together along the seams.) There's a distinct difference in taste between authentic bottled water and the fake bottled water, and the only real way to discern it for yourself is to trust your taste buds. If you have even the slightest doubt, toss the bottle. It's not worth the amoebas and stomach problems that are an inevitable fallout.
Updated Oct 13, 2003
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NEVER drink the local tap in Nepal, the water is hardly purified and can get you very sick (I am talking from experience here). In rural Nepal natural spring water is OK to drink, but only OK. Rural tap systems come off of the rivers, so don't even let that water touch your lips untreated. Make sure to travel with iodine tablets to purify the water. When using iodine, make sure to put the tablets in, wait 5 minutes, shake, wait 20 minutes, than and only then is the water safe to drink. Boiling is another option, but it wasn't common, and iodine was actually preferable.
Written Sep 13, 2003
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After getting back from Nepal I went into hospital with suspected typhoid which I may have caught from eating the lettuce. Don't let that put you off going to Nepal, just be careful! I would still go back.
Written Sep 13, 2002
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I consider myself to have a stomach of steel, but even I couldn't eat in this local eatery. You can't make it out, but there were about 1000 flies having lunch. I did eat at the bus stops and crossed my fingers. Try and get them to put the food right in your hand. The plates they serve the food on are merely rinsed in a bucket of river water.
Written Aug 24, 2002
Water is of course the most dangerous. Especially brushing your teeth before you realize that you've put those poisons in your mouth. But the worst is the drive from Kathmandu to Temple Tiger in the Jungle, and from there to Pokhara and from there to Kathmandu. Wear your seatbelts and pray a lot. The roads are really bad, passing on blind curves is a common pastime, if there are rockslides, they cover the rocks with chicken wire and leave them in the middle of your lane, even around blind curves, people, wild cows and everything else in the roads including bus, truck and auto repairs. It's worse than anywhere else in Asia.
Updated Aug 24, 2002
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Water is the first biggest warning. Right behind that is the driving. BUCKLE UP!!! If you like roller coasters and jumping from perfectly good airplanes, you'll love the ride from Kathmandu to the Tiger Hunt and on to Pokhara before returning to Kathmandu. The ride would have been enough to get Madeline O'Hare, the atheist, to learn how to pray.
Written Aug 24, 2002
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Food can make you very ill over there, bettet take something fried in place of fresk vegetables. You realy can get very seek.
Written Aug 25, 2002
Be cautious with what you eat and it shouldn't be a problem!
Updated Aug 24, 2002
beware! people split...dusty....dirty food and water.....
Written Aug 23, 2002
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Q: A Senior couple intends to do Columbo,Sri Lanka to Goa over land in February then fly to Katmandu for a 5 days light Trek..should...
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