Nepal Safe Again for Tourists

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"amongst the first tourists to return" and "mountain villagers who haven't seen tourists in ten years" - both statements are wild exaggerations! Nepal did suffer from a drop in tourism, but was never closed off for vistors, nor did visitors ever stop going there. In fact very few vistors felt the conflict first hand, apart from the last few years where Maoist were stopping some hikers demanding money. The kidnapping of the British army officer you mentioned was very much a one off and widely considered a Maoist stunt for the cameras. Besides he wasn't a visitor, he lived there.

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