{"id":35747,"date":"2025-11-19T18:26:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T12:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=35747"},"modified":"2025-11-19T18:26:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T12:41:41","slug":"taan-calls-for-amending-provision-regarding-trek-along-restricted-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/taan-calls-for-amending-provision-regarding-trek-along-restricted-area\/","title":{"rendered":"TAAN calls for amending provision regarding trek along restricted area"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Nov 19: The Trekking Agencies\u2019 Association of Nepal (TAAN) has called for a provision allowing even a single tourist to trek in the restricted areas.<\/p>\n<p>In a press statement today, TAAN General Secretary Sonam Gyaljen Sherpa urged the government to revise the existing rule that mandates a group of two people to trek in prohibited areas, allowing an individual to do so as well.<\/p>\n<p>The TAAN also expressed gratitude to the government for setting the fee at USD 50 per person for foreign tourists trekking in the Upper Mustang area.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, TAAN requested the government to amend the current regulation requiring trekkers to obtain a permit for Upper Dolpa similar to the system in Upper Mustang, and instead implement a system that charges fees based on the actual duration of the tourist\u2019s stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Nov 19: The Trekking Agencies\u2019 Association of Nepal (TAAN) has called for a provision allowing even a single tourist to trek in the restricted areas. In a press statement today, TAAN General Secretary Sonam Gyaljen Sherpa urged the government to revise the existing rule that mandates a group of two people to trek in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-main-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35749,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35747\/revisions\/35749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}