Nepal: Tourists Returning

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | January 18th, 2007 | Trackback

Tourism is rebounding amid optimism that peace with the Maoists will hold now that the insurgents are part of the interim parliament. Visitor numbers are up in Pokhara in advance of the spring trekking season, and U.N. officials are just beginning the task of monitoring Maoist weapons and registering their fighters. How quickly and successfully this effort proceeds remains to be seen. Maoists are still demanding “taxes” from trekkers entering the Annapurna circuit, a practice that was supposed to stop with the political settlement. For now, it continues.

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