2010 August Nepal all-round new English Raiders (including Lhasa section accommodation dinner information)

July 31 to Lhasa, 12 August to Nepal, August 20, back to Shanghai, stroke 20 day, write down some of the most practical travel information, hope you can help to go to that of lvyoumen. I. traffic: 1, from Lhasa to Nepal, you need to travel from Lhasa to zham, this second way: a: scooters, Lhasa zham current season average 500 yuan/person, you can pack into a buggy, General afternoon departure, rode, it is said that 12 hours or so. Camphor back to Lhasa rental price is cheap, buggy $ 200-250 per person, preferably directly find buggy drivers, we make the trip, the same car after a little over the port and the soliciting of contact center, that we would fare of $ 200, $ 250, the drivers turning into said to the soliciting more to go $ 50. Recommend this driver, is a Tibetan master, seeing is more honest, he is Tibet Tourism Bureau of 4500 Toyota SUV, sit comfortable and clean, license plate number: Tibetan AL0303, Tel: 18908982205, Dawa. B: take shuttle bus in Lhasa railway station, next to the buy liuwu bus station to the bus ticket zham, $ 270 per capita, starting in the early hours of the morning at half past eight, a second point to get to, mainly depends on the traffic, the basic needs of approximately 17 hours. Not every shuttle, now seemed to Lhasa Zhangmu are one, four, six, and the wood to Lhasa is 2, 4, 6. Return to Lhasa Zhangmu tickets only $ 170 per person. 2. from the wood of the cross-border customs, you also need to take a car, the road is a road that is 8 km from the mountain and there is only one road, 10 yuan/person, if you forgot something, go back to what you want, then have to pay 10 dollars, not backtrack. Approximately 20 minutes that is open to customs. 3, over the border, the friendship bridge out of frontiers, line 2, one side is the Chinese police, one side is the Nepal police. The gateway after going to Nepal's capital Kathmandu also need long-term Charter, a buggy, Nepal can contain nine individuals, we bargain after 600 Lu coins. Open more than four hours after the mountain road, to the city, the streets of dust, there must be a magic towel Strip. From Kathmandu to the wood of the border, are generally at five in the morning, this almost ten-point ride before that Nepal drivers can then pull a dial just exit going to Kathmandu guest. Rent price: 600-700 Lu coins/person. The day before we did not set to the car, the next morning a little direct in the Tamil region a White Tower Office, etc. (this road we call out, you can ask the local people), we pack the car, 600 Yuan lu coins/person, if the previous day booked in buggy, is 700 Yuan lu coins/person. Scooters can ask some Chinese people out of the hotel. 4. go to bokhara, we find the Nepal local travel agencies, package the car, 120 us $, the package back and forth by car, all the rest at their own expense, if the stay an extra day to pay us $ 15 (mainly drivers for the night's accommodation). Boccara one-way to 5 hours, and also the mountain road. If you take bus 7 hours, as needed. Provide a us private travel agency Tel: 0977-9851029614, Nepal who speak Chinese, Chinese name: Chang Yun. We have 2 friends package, but we were late to catch up on the 20th of the aircraft back to Shanghai in Lhasa, and with friends is 20, from Kathmandu to fly back to Shanghai, we are not urgent, it was a night that his own car back. Boccara afternoon before have bus to Kathmandu, departure time comparison of density in a hurry, a 20-person seat minibuses, seat full left, you can reach the monkey Temple, it is very near from the Tamil area, taxi 200 rupees, open 10 clock. The pick-up can be consulted in Sichuan Emei Hotel boss, our Nepal driver directly, we stayed at the hotel Nepal local open, later seen in Sichuan Emei hotel, it has dishes, the boss was very warm, tell us a lot of information, he himself is the Sichuan people, eight years came to Nepal, beginning from washing the dishes, then when the translation, then bought in Nepal, married, my wife gave birth to a son, now in Nepal for almost 30 years, the boss cook meals is also good, quantity is also great, we know there is a shuttle bus to Kathmandu is the boss told us, the second day was very enthusiastic to help us tell the taxi driver to take us, care, pointing us in the past to buy tickets, it is very grateful to him! here recommended at his hotel in Sichuan Emei hotel, boss: Mr.Wu Jin. Phone: 9806559049, EMAIL: gautam12@hotmail.com II, visas, customs clearance: 1, Passport Office in Shanghai, the visa is to Lhasa, Nepal and Tibet by consular from Norbu lingka Museum is very near, you can tie a visa by the way, visit Norbu lingka (please buy tickets on behalf of Tibetans, you only need $ 5) and the Tibet Museum (free). Visa is the morning 10: 00-12: 00, 16: 00 the next day to take the most recent stage do a half-month visa, you can only do one month visa, the visa fee is $ 280. When you need to fill out form Visa, English language, if you will not be able to invite people to fill in next generation 20 Yuan/Zhang. We are fast approaching 12 points when they filled out the form, the visa officer nor time answering directly collecting money for, but before the visa officer will ask some of the course is in English. 2. from the wood of the door, first going to China inspection and Quarantine Bureau, staff very carefully and ask our Nepal water never drink, where water quality is very poor, needs to buy mineral water. After you finish the registration, then, apart from packages inspection machine checked bag, armed police also seized the package is opened, on titles look very carefully, will turn over the page. Finally to exit stamp of the Office, staff very friendly. To enter the territory of Nepal, Nepal Army will once again turn the package, Basic does not have any problems, let your past. And then into theA room to fill in the entry list, this small list of English language, the actual staff pressure root does not see what you have filled in, all you have to do is fill in your name, passport, birth date, the basic line, Nepal staff directly sealed even into the landscape. 3. come back from Nepal, first small house seal, please note that Nepal staff will ask you for a few hundred rupees, big may refuse, reject the results simply let ourselves they filled out the form, and then went to his seal of representative can exit. Yet out of the House and then to transit, will be Nepal Army requirements into another room, this is not to search the Nepal Army of your package, but are similar to community staff to search your package, and then tell you it can't take, that's not the actual band, is to correct the money, open to price 500 rupees, we then eventually gave 300 rupees, the money looks like everyone is paid, but you can bargain. 4. After entering the territory of China, the first remains China inspection and Quarantine Bureau of questioning whether band you fruit, animals and plants, it is strictly forbidden to bring into, and then carries on the artificial identification checked bags, books, we are fortunate, in books and the armed police in the family, know that every person with the knife back to the border is not more than 2, then 2 individuals bought eight knives, just before the next pass, we quickly found four people to help us share, finally took off near misses. 5,-for-money of course in the wood of the heat exchanger, now the exchange rate is 1: 11.4, camphor change money Office thought would be a bank or Exchange Office, otherwise, the local women in the streets of direct exchange, exchange rates in Kathmandu is 1: 10.52, actual price, we can talk about is 1: 10.8 replaced, if the premium is lower 1 l: 9.6. Look carefully at the wood of your money, we get a piece of torn one-third of the money merchants are not accepted, then finally found a Bank into good, Nepal's banks rarely, see also the majority of the AtM machine. 3. Hotel: 1, Nepal Tamil area, we live in a hotel of Nepal locals, inexpensive, offer $ 20, we give also to 600 rupees, standard room with bathroom and a small balcony, compared to the Chinese people of Phoenix Hotel do not know how much better, the same price, the Phoenix hotel is no TV in the room, room shabby, bathroom equipment is very poor, the day we went to live in the Phoenix hotel, the Chinese people, can know the point information, so you want to just one night, but after arrival at seven in the evening, go purchase a gift from friends, and so on back into the room to take a look at the incredible, many of the ants, climb into the bag, the bag is a bundle of plastic bag of bread, and embellishments-climbing walls and several rows of ants, too frightening, even my husband this man looked at its stand, tell all full, only twelve midnight change room, still wrapped to the original person who lives in Nepal, the hotel is very good. (Note that people in Nepal also find hotels, eat ants must tighten, particularly sweet foods like bread and cakes, but less, clean up the environment also). Recommend hotel: HOtEL KAtHMANDU VIEW (P) LtD. Phone: 00977-1-4253253, 4260855. This hotel is next to helena ' s restaurant, however the restaurant is closed. This hotel is the best selling carpet on the other side, I would walk into the hotel for a short promenade, the hotel service personnel, back and forth I saw three Nepal locals, all you have to do is point simple English on the line, after all, the hotel back and forth a few words on it. 2, in bokhara we also live in the local Inn, since that is the itinerary for the best hotel accommodation, holiday village, offer is 20 dollars of boss, we continue to offer, the last still to RS. win $ 600, of course, does not include breakfast, dinner, here the consumer should pay attention to is a service charge of 10% service charge is 10%, so eating can go to Sichuan Emei hotel, one can eat Chinese food, there is no service charge. We live in the hotel's top floor, three sides is Windows, elegant environment, like continental pastoral style, rooms, bathrooms are clean and tidy, blog, only we mark the occasion of the residential environment. Recommend hotel: Hotel Himalayan Inn, Tel: 00977-061-466041, 4660423, were recommended at Lhasa's Inn, bird's nest Inn, Wo main riffraff, Shanghai, have several cycling-Lhasa, then stay at the the Inn Lasakai, he's more like a big family Inn, door bell, guest hosts to automatically to open the door, the door is like into the a Communist, as long as it is placed in the living room and large desk food can share free breakfast in the morning, Wo main thugs will burn a good second Pan thick porridge, the porridge is delicious, I heard that he is buying military pressure cooker rice, protest, interested persons can take point pickles. The Inn has a bed, standard room, and a variety of patterns, we came to the mobile phone, PC anywhere, afraid of losing, it seemed as though the family, met each other and ask where to stay, the duration of the places visited, homeboy would often tell our practical information, in the ten years day, really quite comfortable and the price is moderate, selling to standard rooms beds 100 multiple blocks. Wo main homeboy is a complex cheeks dahu, we go to the Shanghai TV station when I met film hole multiplication on 90th anniversary documentary, borrowed's nest do shooting point, the original last year, the Shanghai TV station also nest homeboy had a set TV documentary, film called the 318. Bird's nest out of downtown, a taxi to the Potala Palace is a ten-minute road, sometimes we walk for half an hour to go directly to eight Gallery Street shopping. Bird WoWo main riffraff, mobile: 13648999844, address: Lhasa-Xian zu Island South District report No. 1.Community in the end, and the door after painting a bike and a bird is the bird's nest. 4, xigaze just kin hotel, should belong to the best guesthouses in Shigatse, one went in at the lobby you will know, the room was very large, back rest in Lhasa route a late, tired of our day, is a very good choice, of course, prices are expensive. Standard room $ 200, no breakfast, breakfast is 10 Yuan/report, fairly good, porridge, bread, eggs. If the room is $ 50/bed, triple room is not in the bathroom. Tel: 0892-88207775, camphor accommodation, nothing can be recommended, poor, wet environment, if you can not just try not to, this way of accommodation only in the case of the wood of the expensive, bad. 4. eat 1, crazy Hamburg: to Nepal, Kathmandu Tamil area first meal here, there's free delivery Chinese Nepal map, this is a new trip, if you buy in a bookstore to 300 rupees, it is recommended that you first meal in the address bar, but still want to pay for the services of hotel, Nepal's service fees are generally 10%-13%. Location: Tamil area-Nana hotel next to the shop name: Crazy Burger2, Yin-Yang restaurant: Nepal, Kathmandu Tamil area, Thai restaurant, compared to the civilian hotel prices high, four people had three thousand rupees, also point, of course, very authentic refreshingly soup, coffee is also very good, you can only belong to the rare consumption. 3, majiami: Lhasa Gallery Street very famous hotels, the hotel top floor is a viewing platform, over dinner at the street, well, of course, consumption is high, food is so worthy of recommendation is yogurt cake is delicious, point single-what is asked the waiter, waiter recommended recommended this directly, just want to eat cake, so also did not ask the price, to the point, ate after orofacial interested is very good, would like to another piece of the price, when you ask enough expensive, $ 32 a small block, this suffice. Hehe. Address: southeast corner of Lhasa Street, Tel: 0891-63286084, snowy restaurant: eight Gallery Street in Lhasa, Jokhang Temple, not far away, here's some relative prices, has possession of the civilian population, with Nepal meal, we are very fond of Nepal's coffee and crusty, so few good has thrived, yogurt cake is $ 8, but do not know whether it is frozen for too long, the second to have all felt too acid have ice ballast. But other food is very delicious, recommended. 5, bird's nest take-away: in Lhasa's nest Inn, we also often called the take-away, there is a $ 10 cans of chicken, a tank, chicken, taste good, great value. There is also a Sichuan cuisine, made of very good taste, not too spicy, sour pork sauteed chicken, meat, beans, sour fried pork intestines, pig ears are all we have been told of food, specific to ask Wo main riffraff, he will be responsible for the helped you recommended. 6, the wood of the breakfast is also good, I ate porridge have dough. 7, Nepal, the most common beverages in glass bottles of Coca Cola is, the price is 25-30 rupees, compared to prices expensive country, not the Eyedropper, direct bottle to drink. Large bottle of mineral water, prices in 10-15 rupees, cheaper, as buying one mineral water, we finally have to drink the local milk tea and no discomfort. Supermarkets sell large bottle of juice, 140-150 rupees, taste good, Apple, yellow peach, mango, guava flavor, first Apple flavor, back to Lhasa when bought second tank, just drink all the way. In Lhasa have buy this brand of fruit juice, but a small Pack of 8 Gallery street next to the few streets can be found. 5. shopping: 1, Nepal, men are like a knife, we bought eight knives. Five small craft knife, probably of Palm-size, also bought three larger knife better, also spent a total of 590 Yuan. Some people say in bokhara shopping cheaper than Kathmandu Tamil area, but we are being compared are, actually, something few and boccara, also through price shop owners are no longer pull your, unlike in the Tamil region, just why are you still, shopkeeper one pull then la you back. Proposed counteroffer to less than the price of your heart, like we're still bought a bronze door handles, the asking price 7500 rupees, we blew it, and also discuss the last 1000 rupee down 2700 rupiah win, visible this offer profit. 2. hire of bicycles, motorcycles: when everywhere in Nepal street bike, motorcycle, need to be careful when walking, Nepal's stunts and good, but the road is narrow, cars and pedestrians, prone to collision, we in Nepal just in case one day strike, we don't dare go out fear conflict, then learn to strike just the car could not be opened, but the other shop just business, help us to rent a bike, bike tour, security greatly enhanced. In this use of bicycle, motorcycle without deposit, bicycle day 250 rupees, we don't offer that day, riding for three hours. In bokhara, we offer to 350 rupee 4 bike. If you rent motorcycles RS.1.5 $ 500 a day, own refuelling. 3, Lhasa Gallery Street Dan Jie Lin Road, square's shops, this is the bird WoWo main homeboy familiar stores, mainly sell jewelry and decorative items, he accompanied her to go shopping, and many can be cheap, 6: 1, jiademandudubaguangchang, very near from the Tamil, walk for 20 minutes, in Plaza entrance, there is a wooden house of ticketing kiosks, 300 rupees per person, if you want multiple entry, you can go to Plaza Office, if you have a photo available to date for the deadline to passport visa, if there are no photos can do multiple entry within three days. Ticketing kiosk is very modest, if we're not just in front of their own after an estimated in won't be stopped to buy tickets. 2, the monkey Temple, we strike at largeWorker's day, ride a bike to, not in, directly from the left side of the road, the ride to the top of the Hill, at-a-glance picture of Kathmandu, Kathmandu just downtrodden really compare, YuanWang has a tall, are low housing, housing is also much to bare brick. VII. other 1, go to Nepal before I know frequent power outages, we did come across after a power outage, but most of the shops have a power outage, sometimes the hotel is only two hours a night, you simply have power to seize a hot bath on the line, don't worry, you can take a conversion head, convenient charging.