I visit Nepal every year with medical equipment for a vision programme of the Lion\'s International and also help children in jail and their mothers. I have booked my tickets to Nepal in October, where I expect to stay three-and-half months with a 10-day side trip to India. As of now, here are my visa fees: $55 for a 60-day double-entry + $50 for an additional 30 days, and $75 for my 30 day return visit in March, 2003.

Total: $180.

Not only that, because of the fees for entering Hanuman Dhoka, I will probably not visit my many friends with shops around Darbar Square. My multiple-entry visa for India is $60 for 10 years. It doesn't take a PhD to understand that Nepal is doing every thing possible to tell tourist and aid workers, to go away. Aloha.

Michael VanDeVeer
Kauai, Hawaii