Wonderful Beautiful Nepal

Currently in the USA there is a big phenomenon and popularity of these so called "Internet Pranksters". People such as Vitaly, Roman Atwood, FooseyTube and others have gotten huge rich producing videos where they appear to play jokes on the average person in public. Following that trend of pranksters, others have started similar youtube channels and pranks in India. Now Nepali pranksters have gotten in the act of producing "prank" videos themselves. There at least five major so called "Pranksters" now producing videos in Nepal. Each of their has gotten about 200,000 to 400,000 views on average, which is quite a respectable amount of views. Click here to see this video for yourself of the top five best Nepali pranks in 2015 - 2016.

Isn’t life in the 21 st century wonderful? If you are as old as I am you might remember how difficult it was to travel if you were expecting money to come to you after you left home. We had to go to the bank to buy travelers’ checks. Everything about it was cumbersome. Then in the 1980’s came this wonderful thing called the ATM card. Lovely! Now my money follows me around the planet and it is great to be able to travel.  Whether you are traveling through Asia, Africa or even a bit closer to home, these tips will help you to keep your money safe.  How does international banking work in developing countries like Nepal? Actually, it works pretty well considering all that can go wrong.  1.      Use only ‘Tourist Friendly’ ATM machines. This is the machine that has a slot whereby you can dip your card without letting go of it (see picture). In Nepal, there are both scheduled and random power outages. If you let go of your card and there is a power outage ...

It’s not what lies at the end of the road that makes travel irresistible, but the road itself. When I returned to Nigeria last November, I needed an excuse to trek around the country, a reason to get from point A to point B, and in between I expected to see things, to encounter interesting characters, and maybe to get an insight into the Nigerian way of life. I told you about some of this in the last post , and I promised to tell you about my escapades with security men. The road is more fun than the destination. Only in Nigeria will you see people hawking raw meat! The excuse I gave myself was that I wanted to see old palaces, not the grand tourist attractions, but the little ones that you hardly hear about. So I spent a lot of time searching online, and I came up with a few targets, some of which were mentioned in less than five websites. I have a thing for old buildings , I think I am an architectural tourist, whatever that means, so when I heard of mud structures that were a thousa...

Nepal has now started issuing its so called "Smart Driving License". The  (DOTM) Department of Transport Management has been bringing its long-planned smart driving license and will eventually replace all paper driving licenses currently in use. The latest issued driving licenses are very similar to bank ATM cards. They have in them an electronic chip which stores driver’s name, address, vehicle information and others.The DOTM has also moved all the old driving license data to a digital platform. According to news reports, the department plans to complete replacing the technology enabled licence within three to five years. Till date, the DoTM has issued around 2 million driving licences, out of which around 1.5 million are estimated to be active.  The introduction of the so called "Smart License" is said to reduce mismanagement among DOTM employees and other issues related to fake driving licenses.  The DoTM initiative is part of the Information and Communicat...