I just returned from Nepal after a short 3 weeks with my Nepali fiance, and each time I go I am amazed at the stupidity of Nepali drivers! The women, mostly on scooters seem to drive properly, but the rest, OMG, they are horrible!

1) why does not one LOOK before entering a main road? they just honk, and blindly enter, oncoming traffic ignored. Near Lakeside I saw a man with a small helmetless kid in his lap, just swoosh into traffic without a glance left or rite, as if its the traffics duty to move and not kill them. and this happened over and over. even pedestrians just walk rite out into traffic without a thought. Years ago i saw a little boy get killed by a speeding bus in Bogar chasing a ball onto road without looking first. WHY?

2) Why do they all pass slower vehichles on blind corners?

3) Why do they speed heedlessly through towns? In Hemja, near Pokhara, just a month before i arrived, a bus speeding thru Milanchowk had killed 2 boys on a motorbike. Then the locals burned the bus and stopped all bus and taxis for a week in protest. Wouldn't it be more productive to post AND enforce strict Speed Limits thru towns? Don't they have speeding tickets?

4) Why, when they break down, do they Never pull off onto the shoulder? They just stop wherever they are, in the lane, to fix the flat or whatever, snarling traffic behind and in front. Shouldn't there be enforced laws that say one MUST pull off on the side?

5) Why do they ALWAYS leave the rocks used to block the wheels IN the road once they leave? Is it to show or just laziness? I can't count the times I've had to swerve my bike to avoid hitting rocks in the road left by some idiot bus or truck driver.

6) Why doesn't the police ever post officers along the roads to enforce any road laws? They always just sit idly in their little stations, oblivious to law breakers.

7)Why do Nepali parents NEVER teach their kids to LOOK first before going out in the road for any reason?

8) Why do they sit in a traffic jam and blare their horns continuously when theres no way it will do any good?

Don't get me wrong, i love Nepal, its culture, its women, but the Nepali (men) drivers make me mad! Until such things as this, and many other habits of Nepali men change, it is one of the reasons your country (and my adopted one) will never advance into a modern nation. Your comments are invited.

watch your words buddy. i was in Nepal 2 months ago and spent a month there. i absolutely loved it. after living for 3 yrs in the US, i finally got an escape from the monotonous, zombie-like life of work and school.

as per your concern, ask that question again after you live AND drive in Nepal for few months.

no matter how civilized you think you are, you are forced to yield to the state of nature. currently, the state of nature in Nepal is chaotic, with maximum entropy possible. hence, the carelessness, rulelessness and such.

someday, things will be better.

on a funnier note, you blame Nepali men drivers for their carelessness. but i heard that in the developed nations, they say 'women driver no survivor'

:)

do you think US driver (s) (even Cops too) follow all rules ?

The worst of all is the law we have that encourages most of the drivers to back-up and roll their tyres over a person who they hit but appears to be not dead.

Imagine youself walking alonside the road and you get hit by a truck, you are not dead but just injured, then the truck backs and kills you. And apparently in Nepal, this is normal. Is it not murder?

It is good to be positive, it is the way of driving and surviving to the situation. I do not think it will be better because every year more than 20 K scooter and 4-5 K car are registered. The current road can not bear the burden. They were build to run Rana's car and ex king car only.

You will see worst every day. Do not expect as USA. It is the way of life and we are surviving.

hey dude... why are you over-reacting. its been going on for years and will go on. You lived in america and followed the rules does not mean you know everything and you have to act smart. i went there 2 months ago for a whole semester that is 4 months. hey like you i have lived here for 3 years too and i did not find any problem. you're talking about pokhara and i am talking about kathmandu that is more traffic and more accidents but that is the fun part of it. When i went there i was happy to get a break from this US driving laws and i was happy. Hey its been this way since the very beginning and i dont want it to change and neither does most of the nepali brothers and sisters. They way is see is you're trying to say you are more civilized than most of us over here... let me tell you "you're not".