Visiting Nepal has its own contentment owing to the countless fascinations that it has to offer its visitors. However, your trip in Nepal could be a very bad experience mainly by simply disregarding your health. Few factors that travelers should be attentive when traveling in Nepal are food, drinking water, sanitation, pollution, and altitude sickness (if trekking in the mountains).

Drinking tap water in Nepal is a big NO for all travelers as it is contaminated and harmful for consumption. To travel healthy in Nepal, you need to maintain basic hygiene to avoid Giardiasis, a diarrheal disease caused by a microscopic parasite mostly found in contaminated water. Do not touch street animals like cows and dogs – rabies is common in Nepal. We recommend you getting a rabies vaccine before traveling to Nepal.

Mosquitoes are rampant in the lowlands of Nepal. If you are considering visiting the lowlands, bring along with you anti-malarial tablets, sleeved shirt and long trousers and an insect repellant. To avoid the polluted air of Kathmandu, consider wearing a face mask at all time while roaming around to avoid getting infected with respiratory diseases.