Booking Information Blue Bird Travels & Tours Pvt. Ltd. is a Government registered Travel & Tours company and a very active member of Nepal Association of Travel Agents (NATA). We have over a decades experience helping overseas clients enjoy the mystic of Nepal. Our specialization is Adventure / Leasure & Eco tourism. As well as being ecologically sensitive in all our programs, we also organize special nature tours. We believe that tourism should benefit the rural community whose locality provide a major component of our tour programs. We are very much engaged in providing assistance in whatever way we can to local schools, health clinics, and other local initiatives. We always welcome your participation in these projects. A tour program to include visits to these project sites can be arranged for interested clients. Blue Bird Travel & Tours Pvt. Ltd, understands the special needs and preferences of visitors coming to Nepal and our company is well equipped to meet them. We can assist individual travellers or a large group, and can customise any tours to fit their needs. Blue Bird will always strive to make YOUR Nepal visit a dream holiday with special emphasis on adventure and fun. Our services include Sightseeing, Culture, Nature & Eco Tours, Trekking, Mountaineering, Pony treks, Rafting, Wild Life Safari, Pony treks, National and International Air Ticketing, Air Charter, Mountain Flight, Hotel reservations, Hot Air Ballooning, Mountain Biking tour, Shopping & Business assistance, Event Management, Tibet Tours & Treks, Bhutan Tours & Treks, India Treks & Tours, including Sikkim, and much more. We provide all our clients with competent English and all other major international language speaking guides on all our trips. Give us a call, Fax or E-mail for further details or send us your tour requirements and we will make a program to match your preferences and answer any queries that you may have. Bookings & Reservations Reservations should be made by fax, telephone or e-mail clearly stating the services required. Final confirmations along with the final name list must be received by us no later than 7 days prior to scheduled group arrival along with the following information. Information required : Full Name : Sex : Date of Birth : Nationality : Passport No - Visa validity - Along with 2 recent passport photographs each for rating and trekking permits. Tour / Land Costs Tour/land costs includes accommodation and meals, services of guides, naturalists, porters, transfers, sightseeing tours, permits and entrance fees, rental of camping trekking and rafting equipments as specified in the tour program and itinerary. Entry formalities A valid passport for all non-Indian visitors is required. Visas can be obtained from any of the Royal Nepalese embassies or consulates abroad. Seven day is granted on arrival after paying the necessary fees. Any amount of foreign currency except Indian Rupees can be brought into the country but needs to be declared upon arrival. International certificate of vaccination is recommended.Further information can be had from our embassies abroad or from our office. Transport Kathmandu is connected by flights from Bangkok, Bombay, Dubai, Frankfurt, Karachi, London, New Delhi, Osaka, Paris, Shanghai and Singapore. Inside Nepal, all major destinations can be reached by air from Kathmandu either through scheduled airlines flight or by chartered helicopters. Land transport is available from Kathmandu to all major towns of the country and to Indian and Chinese border. Deposits and Payments We confirm reservations subject to receipt of deposits. Advance payment of 50% of all tour/land costs must be deposited with us 20 days prior to the groups scheduled arrival date. Complete payment must be made on arrival in Kathmandu unless other arrangements have been made with us in advance. Payments to Blue Bird Travel & Tours Pvt. Ltd should be sent to Account No. - 01 01 42220 54 Name of Bank. - Standard Chartered Bank Nepal Limited, Kantipath Branch, Kathmandu, Nepal Swift Code: SCBLNPKA Group Definition A group is a party of 10 or more persons traveling together booked collectively at one time for the same period taking the same tour and land arrangements. Individual definition Individual travel is 1 to 9 people. Agency Commissions All prices quoted by us are commissionable to bonafide travel agents and tour operators abroad COMPLEMENTARY POLICY. For all tour/land arrangements in Nepal (unless otherwise stated) Blue Bird will provide you with one person complementary on a tour plan for every 15 paying guests and a 50% discount for 1 person on a tour plan for minimum 10 paying guests. Complementary or discounted accommodation will be made on a twin-sharing basis. Prices Prices are subject to change without prior notice as many of the components of tour packages are not Blue Bird owned products. It is beyond our means to guarantee prices, however every effort will be made to keep you adequately informed. Cancellation & No-Shows 7 days. 25% of total tour/land arrangement cost. Within 72 hours. 50% of total tour/land arrangement cost. No-Shows 100% of total tour/land arrangement cost. We always work with your interest foremost in our minds. Cancellation charges are not designed to inconvenience you, but are necessary to meet our obligations, booked under certain terms and conditions on your behalf, which cannot be met by us. Refund All tour and land arrangements guaranteed by us are subject to our inability to provide the same as result of acts of God, acts of governments or such authorities, war, hostilities, civil disturbances, strikes, riots, epidemics, quarantines, or as a result of any other causes beyond our control. We shall not be liable to provide services confirmed but not executed due to our inability to provide the same as a result of the above mentioned occurrences. No refunds will be made by us on part and full payments received by us. Refunds on activities not directly provided by us will be made as and when we are able to receive them from the concerned agency. Health & First Aid Good health and physical fitness are required on all trips. We recommend a physical examination for all participants on extended treks and rigorous rafting trips. Trekkers are advised to make known to us their health complications in advance. Trekkers should also carry a first aid kit to supplement our first aid kit. Insurance It is highly recommended that all participants in our treks and rafting trips must be protected by insurance that covers cancellation, accidents, health, emergency evacuation and loss or theft or damage to baggage and personal effects. Emergency evacuation must be paid in cash in Nepal if an insurance certificate cannot be produced. The medical policy should cover transport costs in the event of helicopter or surface evacuation being required. Such insurance is not locally available. Medical evacuation by helicopter costs approximately US $1000 per hour. It is important that any insurance policy issued to cover emergency evacuation for a trek does not exclude Alpinism and mountaineering. This insurance is not available in Nepal. Insurance costs are minimal when compared with possible losses and the consequences suffered when rescue aircraft refuse to operate due to lack of payment or proof thereof. Delays and Itinerary Changes We regret that delays or changes in itineraries caused by circumstances beyond our control may occur. Our company will deal accordingly, and consult our clients, rearranging a satisfactory itinerary. Assumption of Rsk The participant understands that during the course of the trip certain risks and dangers may occur due to the hazards of traveling in mountainous terrain, accident or illness in remote places and the forces of nature. The participant must agree to assume all risks associated with the journey, and agree that no liability will be attached to the company or its outfitters, employees or agents, or any member of the tour group for loss of any kind. Responsibility Please read carefully that Blue Bird Travel & Tours Pvt. Ltd., its owners, outfitters, agents and employees, give notice that they act only as agents for the owners, contractors, and principal suppliers providing different services under the holiday package and assume no responsibility whatsoever caused by injury, loss, or damage to person or property in connection with service resulting directly or indirectly from: acts of God, detention, annoyance, delays and expenses arising from quarantine, strikes, thefts, pilferage, force majeure, failure of any means of conveyance to arrive or depart as per scheduled, civil disturbances, government restriction or regulation, discrepancies or change in transit or hotel services, over which it has no control. Reasonable changes in the itinerary may be made where deemed advisable for the comfort and the well?being of the passengers.