Buses
Public buses ply every paved road in Nepal, as well as quite a few of the unpaved ones. The bus network is completely and chaotically privatized - there seem to be as many bus companies as there are buses - but all fares are fixed for public services (not for tourist ones). Fares depend less on distance than on the state of the road and the time it takes to make the journey; for express buses it works out to about Rs15 per hour, somewhat more for night services. Open-air bus stations ( bas park or bas istand in Nepali, and referred to as "bus parks" throughout the guide) are typically located in the smelliest, dustiest and muddiest parts of town. Some cities have more than one bus park to handle services along different routes. Tickets are often sold through syndicates - for example, all night bus tickets from one window or booth, all day buses from another. Destinations may not be written in English, in which case you just have to ask around. In Kathmandu and Pokhara you may find it easier to make arrangements through a ticket agent, while in other cities with inconveniently located bus stations you can ask your hotel to send someone to buy a ticket for you. Few travellers are ever quite prepared for the sheer slowness of bus travel in Nepal. Allowing for bad roads, overloaded buses, tea stops, meal stops, police checks, constant picking up and letting off of passengers, and the occasional flat tyre or worse, the average speed in the hills is barely 25km per hour, and on remote, unpaved roads it can be as little as 10kph. In the Tarai, it's more like 40kph on a good road.
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