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All cordons have been passed! I'm in Kathmandu. And today is the day of pleasant surprises.

I am getting closer to the starting point on the Great Himalayan Trail. And it would be much more difficult for me to make this start without the help of many people, thanks to whom you will often see in my posts. Today I want to thank Igor Vishnyakov and the Finbridge company - without their help it would have been much more difficult for me to be in Kathmandu today. Thank you!

With the documents for entering Nepal, everything turned out to be easier than it was when boarding a plane in Moscow. But yes, a lot of impressions from crossing the border in a brave new world.

Even before entering the airport building, you need to go through a huge tent, where vaccination certificates and PCR tests will be checked. The checking is not very meticulous, and since I have a document on vaccination (the Sputnik came up quite well), they put the stamp "Home quarantine" on my certificate of a negative PCR test. At the exit from the tent, you need to present a bar code printed from the CCMC system. You can even show it from the phone screen (In Moscow, they demanded a printed CCMC questionnaire, here it not needed). 

At the entrance to the airport, they looked again at the certificate with a mark for home quarantine. On point of passport control they did not ask any documents - all you had to do was name the quarantine hotel and the phone number of the contact person in Nepal.

The airport has changed dramatically in a couple of years: it has tripled in size, with fresh renovation, beauty. The city also benefited from lockdown: the rains washed away dirt and dust, people and traffic on the streets are much less. Restaurants work mainly for takeaway (in fact, if you smile at the owner, you can eat inside from normal dishes), most of the shops are open.

The most interesting thing was awaiting me at the hotel, where I have to sit in quarantine. It turned out that I am the only guest in this hotel. Therefore, I can move freely in the hotel (you can, for example, sit on the roof) and you can even carefully go outside and order food. The hotel was recently included in the list of hotels approved for quarantine - apparently that's why it's so easy to be isolated here :)

In general, at the moment everything is fine and there is not even rain, despite the midst of the monsoon. Tomorrow we will start working out the route, taking into account the new realities. I hope for a minimum of changes.

 

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