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🇳🇵 Use CautionIs Nepal Safe for First-Time Travelers?
Safety Scores / Nepal
Travel verdict: Cities are relatively safe, but trekking requires serious preparation. Acclimatize properly, hire licensed guides, and purchase full trek insurance. The scores and risks below say why.
Safety Scores
Key Risks
- Altitude sickness is a serious risk on Everest Base Camp and other high treks
- Trekking accidents; weather changes rapidly in the Himalayas
- Major earthquake risk; infrastructure in mountain regions is fragile
Travel Verdict: Cities are relatively safe, but trekking requires serious preparation. Acclimatize properly, hire licensed guides, and purchase full trek insurance.
Acclimatize gradually; know AMS symptoms and descend if ill
Bring a full medical kit; nearest hospitals are far on high treks
Cash-based economy in trekking areas; carry Nepali rupees
Emergency: 100 (police), 102 (ambulance); TIMS card required for treks
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