来源：尼泊尔国家英文报纸《新兴尼泊尔报》（The Rising Nepal）网站（TRN Online）
2025年7月10日，星期四 作者 CB·阿迪卡里（CB Adhikari）
原文链接：https://www.risingnepaldaily.com/news/64877
图为位于中国西藏的冈仁波齐峰（Gang Rinpoche），印度和尼泊尔称为Mount Kailash
加德满都7月10日讯：经尼泊尔前往中国西藏的印度教圣地冈仁波齐（Gang Rinpoche）和玛旁雍错（Mapam Yumtso）（原文为Kailash Mansarovar）朝圣的游客正承受着漫长签证审核流程带来的压力。
尼泊尔旅行社抱怨称，约3000名游客被困在加德满都，因为中国大使馆进行签证审核需要10天以上时间。过去只需3天的签证流程如今却要10天，而且还不能保证签证获批，这使得游客们只能在加德满都的各家酒店等待前往玛旁雍错朝圣。
拉梅什·奥贾（Ramesh Ojha）是奥贾假日旅游与徒步私人有限公司（Ojha Holiday Tours and Treks Pvt. Ltd.）的总经理，他表示，有关签证核查的新政策在旅游旺季给旅游企业家们带来了麻烦。
更糟糕的是，拉苏瓦县（Rasuwa）近期发生的洪水迫使旅行社改变了前往玛旁雍措的路线，因为从拉苏瓦加迪（Rasuwagadhi）经吉隆（Kerung）路线的道路已关闭。大多数印度游客此前都是经由这条路线前往玛旁雍措。不过，高端游客，包括居住在不同国家的印度裔公民，会选择航空运输，经尼泊尔西北部卡纳利省（Karnali Province）胡姆拉县（Humla）的西米科特（Simikot）前往玛旁雍措，或者从加德满都经中国拉萨前往。
为游客提供冈仁波齐-玛旁雍错旅游套餐（Kailash Mansarovar tour package）的奥贾假日（Ojha Holidays）、里查旅游（Richa Travels and Tours）、生态徒步（Eco Trek）、文化遗产旅游（Heritage Tours and Travel）、阳光旅游（Sunny Travel）、徒步者协会（Trekkers' Society）等在内的六家旅行社是最受欢迎的旅行社。
印度旅行社孟买休闲港（Leisure Port in Mumbai）的老板纳马拉杰·乔希（Namaraj Joshi）对不得不与39人一起在加德满都等待签证10天表示担忧。
7月6日，尼泊尔众议院国际关系和旅游委员会会议上，议员们也提出了这个问题。他们提醒旅游部长注意，由于前往玛旁雍错的签证流程延误，数百名外国公民滞留在酒店。对此，尼文化、旅游和民航部长巴德里·普拉萨德·潘迪（Badri Prasad Pandey）承诺，将通过外交部与中国驻尼大使馆合作，推动为经尼泊尔前往玛旁雍错的游客办理签证。
外国人需要从拉萨获得入境许可，并在提交护照查验后的三天内才可以获得签证。申请人到达后，中国驻加德满都大使馆进行签证查验。
据旅行社介绍，经尼泊尔前往中国西藏玛旁雍错的游客约占前往这一印度教圣地游客总数的20%。
“由于签证审核延误，我们受到的影响最大，因为我们不得不应对游客延长停留时间的情况，这让我们的花费超过了运营旅游套餐所赚取的收入。”索汉旅行社私人有限公司（Soham Journeys Pvt. Ltd.）总经理苏里亚·帕萨克（Surya Pathak）抱怨道。
帕萨克回忆说，他的公司过去一个旅游季能接待3000名游客，而今年勉强能达到1000人。2019年，该公司组织了近4000人参加玛旁雍错朝圣之旅。
冈仁波齐峰和玛旁雍错湖（Kailash Mansarovar）朝圣的季节大约是从5月到9月的五个月时间。据由30家旅行社组成的综合组织冈仁波齐旅行社协会（Association of Kailash Tour Operators）称，每年约有2.5万名游客经尼泊尔前往玛旁雍错湖。由于尼泊尔根杰-西米科特-希尔萨路线（Nepalgunj-Simikot-Hilsa route）是抵达那里最近的路线，因此有相当数量的游客倾向于选择这条路线。
旅游公司表示，印度公民前往玛旁雍错的费用在25万至30万印度卢比（约合人民币 20,947.5元至 25,137元）之间，而非印度居民则至少需要100万印度卢比(约合人民币83790元)。大量居住在美国、英国、加拿大和澳大利亚的非定居印度人(Non-resident Indians (NRIs))选择以尼泊尔为中转地，前往冈仁波齐和玛旁雍错朝圣。(尼泊尔国家通讯社RSS)
河北经贸大学尼泊尔研究中心 张树彬 编译
原文：Mansarovar-bound 3,000 foreign tourists 'stuck' in Kathmandu
TRN Online
Thu, 10 July 2025
CB Adhikari
Kathmandu, July 10: Tourists on a pilgrimage to Kailash Mansarovar via Nepal are bearing the brunt of a lengthy VISA verification process.
Nepali tour operators have complained that around 3000 tourists are stuck in Kathmandu as the Chinese Embassy is taking more than 10 days for VISA verification. The VISA process that used to take three days in the past is now taking 10 days with no guarantee of VISA approval, forcing tourists to wait for the Mansarovar pilgrimage in various hotels in Kathmandu.
Ramesh Ojha, Managing Director of Ojha Holiday Tours and Treks Pvt. Ltd., said that the new policy regarding VISA verification has put tourism entrepreneurs in trouble during the ' tourist season'.
To make matters worse, the recent floods in Rasuwa has forced tour operators to change the route to Mansarovar as the road via the Kerung route from Rasuwagadhi is shut. Majority of Indian tourists were going to Mansarovar via this route. High-spending tourists including citizens of Indian origin living in various countries however use air transport to reach Mansarovar via Simikot in Humla and from Kathmandu via Lhasa in China.
More than half a dozen tour operators including Ojha Holidays, Richa Travels and Tours, Eco Trek, Heritage Tours and Travel, Sunny Travel, Trekkers' Society, and others are the most popular ones offering Kailash Mansarovar tour package for tourists.
Namaraj Joshi, the owner of Leisure Port in Mumbai, India, expressed concern over having to wait for VISA in Kathmandu for 10 days with a group of 39 people.
The issue had also been raised by Members of Parliament in the meeting of the House of Representatives, International Relations and Tourism Committee on July 6. They drew the attention of the Tourism Minister to the fact that hundreds of foreign nationals were waiting in hotels due to delays in the VISA process to Mansarovar. In response, Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Badri Prasad Pandey had committed to taking initiatives with the Chinese Embassy through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to facilitate the VISA process for tourists going to Mansarovar via Nepal.
Foreigners acquire entry permission from Lhasa, and get their VISA within three days of handing over the passport for verification. The Chinese embassy in Kathmandu does the VISA verification after the applicants arrive in person.
According to tour operators, that tourists going to Mansarovar in Tibet via Nepal account for about 20 percent of the total tourists going to the sacred Hindu religious site.
“We are the worst hit due to the delay in VISA verification as we have to manage the tourists' lengthened stay, which is costing us more than what we earn by managing the running tour package,” complained Surya Pathak, Managing Director of Soham Journeys Pvt. Ltd.
Recalling that his company used to send 3,000 tourists in a season, Pathak said that this year it would barely reach 1,000 tourists. In 2019, the company had taken nearly 4,000 people on the Mansarovar Yatra.
The season for visiting Kailash Mansarovar is about five months from May to September. According to the Association of Kailash Tour Operators, an umbrella organisation of 30 tour operators, around 25,000 tourists visit Mansarovar via Nepal annually. Since the Nepalgunj-Simikot-Hilsa route is the closest to reach there a significant number of tourists prefer to use this route.
Tour companies have stated that it costs Indian citizens Rs. 250,000 to 300,000 and at least Rs. 1 million for non-resident Indians to visit Mansarovar. A large number of Non-resident Indians (NRIs) living in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia use Nepal as a transit to make a pilgrimage to Kailash Mansarovar. RSS
