Visa

Some helpful tips for getting a visa extension in Nepal.

1. Do not cross the India border without a valid Indian visa, nobody will stop you. However, you will be arrested, fined and thrown in jail. 
2. Do not try to buy a Indian visa at the border, you can't. They are only available in Kathmandu or Pokhara. 
3. Do not try to extend your Nepali visa at the border, you can't. That is also only possible in Kathmandu or Pokara at a cost of $2 a day. Extension is only possible for two months at a time, although the sign outside clearly states that 'visas can be extend from a minimum of 15 days to a maximum of 150 at on time'. However, you can come back two months later and do it again. 
4. Don't forget to take passport photographs to the immigration office or you will have to spend hours waiting in a photographers to get your picture taken, while the guy behind the counter very slowly  Photoshops a picture to remove someones neck creases. 
5. Don't forget what day you are leaving the country. The immigration people don't like 'guessing'. 
6. Don't take a taxi to the immigration office. Nobody knows how to get there.
7. Don't send your taxi driver away when you arrive at the immigration office. There will be no taxis outside when you want to leave. 
8. Don't try to walk to lakeside from the immigration office. Bikes, cars and oxen will try to run you down for walking on the roadside.