Kathmandu - Post Report Question and Answers
What is your home city/country? How long is the trip to post from there, with what connections? How easy/difficult is it to travel to this city/country?
My home is in the DC area. Travel to post involves a drive of a few hours to the airport then approximately between 25-30 hours of flight time. It's difficult to get to Nepal from home, so we never went back during our tour. - Jun 2024
Home is the west coast of USA. The trip takes about 24 hours total. The connections are in Doha or Dubai. I have not flown east to the USA since those flights aren't as common. The travel to USA is a little rough, but doable. - Aug 2022
DC. It takes about 2 days, 51 hrs. The flight is grueling and extremely expensive, about $2,000. Actually, it's expensive to fly anywhere from Kathmandu. - Aug 2019
Chicago... it's a long trip, shortest route is nearly 36 hours, through Doha or Istanbul (but beware Turkish airlines is not the best and they are late almost everyday). - Aug 2015
From Washington, DC, it's anywhere from 24 to 40 hours with layovers in the Middle East or East Asia. I have flown through Doha, Korea, and Thailand - all are good routes with good airlines. - Jul 2014
Washington DC. Shortest flight is probably through Doha -- 4 hours to Doha, usually a layover of 6-8 hours, then 13 hours to DC. - May 2014
Washington, D.C. to Frankfurt, Frankfurt to Istanbul, Istanbul to Kathmandu - Apr 2014
Home is Virginia, fly out from Dulles, to Tokyo, then Bangkok, overnight in Bangkok and then fly to Kathmandu. It takes more than a day to arrive, you loose a day during travel because of the time difference. - Dec 2013
Home base is in Washington DC. Common flights route through Bangkok, Doha, or New Delhi with total flight times being easily between 20-30 hours. - Jun 2013
The Northwest of the U.S. It is typically 35 hours to get home. - May 2013
Fairfax VA is our home town. The trip was 15 hours for the first leg to Seoul, where we overnighted in Incheon Airport (hotel behind security) and the second leg was about four (4) hours to Kathmandu. - Sep 2010
US and Canada. Usually go through the Middle East and connect at NY or Washington. - Jan 2010
