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Entry
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Narayanhiti
Palace
Narayanhiti
Palace Museum is now open for public. The entry fee is NRs 100 for
Nepalis and NRs 20 for students, NRs 250 for SAARC nationals and Chinese.
Other foreign visitors have to pay NRs 500 at the museum's entrance (valid
2009).
Visitors
can take a look at nineteen different blocks and belongings of the
former royal, e.g. furniture, precious artefacts, wardrobes, the
crown.
Bhaktapur
Bhaktapur
Municipality has decided to increase the entry fee into the city from USD
5 to USD 10 beginning 1st January 2001 for all foreign visitors. Following
the path taken by Bhaktapur, Lalitpur sub-metropolis is also considering
to increase the entry fee.
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Within
Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Swayambhu Development Committee and Bauddha
Development and Conservation Committee have already announced to levy entry
fee on visiting tourists. If things remain unchanged, a tourist will end
up paying varying fees to five municipalities of the valley along with
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Bhaktapur
sets new entry fee
Bhaktapur
Municipality (BM) today declared that it would levy the same amount of
entry fee from both Indian and Chinese tourists, visiting the cultural
city. The Bhaktapur Municipality collects Rs 50 from tourists of the SAARC
countries,which includes the Indianstoo, and US $ 10 from other tourists.
Kathmandu:
Ancient royal palace, Hanumandhoka
Kathmandu
Metropolitan City decided to levy entrance fee from the tourists
visiting Kathmandu's ancient royal palace, Hanumandhoka from July 2001.
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tourist would have to pay Rs 200 to enter the square from any side. And
the tourists from the SAARC regions will be required to pay only Rs 25
per head. The booths are being installed at the five entry points to the
Malla period palace complex with scores of temples inside. Hanumandhoka
Durbar square is the only place among the seven zones that make the Kathmandu
Valley a UNESCO's World Heritage Site, where the tourists need not pay
entrance fee till now. |
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Kathmandu
Valley was inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979.
Bhaktapur
Durbar Square, Lalitpur Durbar Square, Boudha, Swayambhu, Pashupati
and Changu Narayan temples, have entrance fees too.
Entry
fees for foreigners at Hanuman Dhoka, the old Royal Palace in Kathmandu
Tourists
visiting the Hanuman Dhoka, the old Royal Palace, will be charged from
August 17, 2001.
Visitors
from the SAARC region will be charged NRs. 25 .
Tourists
from other nations will be billed NRs. 200 each.
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