Upper Mustang Trek

One of our representatives will pick you up at the airport to accompany you to the hotel. Depending on the arrival time we will meet in the hotel for the briefing of the entire upper mustang trip itinerary.

We take a short flight of 25 mints to the most scenic city Pokhara. During the flight one can enjoy the great Himalayan range, during the clear days the whole range from Ganesh Himal till Dhaulagiri is visible. 

Today after our breakfast we will head towards upper mustang trip in 4×4.The drive will take us through very diverse landscapes. From the lush green mountains through the world's deepest gorge (Dana) to the Semi –arid desert of Mustang.

We will be rewarded with magnificent view of Annapurna and Dhaulagiri.

Our awaited adventure towards the kingdom of lo starts today. Today's hike is easy, most of the path we cover will be on the motor able road.

The villages on the way Tangbe and Chuksang will surprise us with its unique culture tradition and architecture with the vivid colourful landscape. Sky caves that we see on the way add the curiosity on the evolution and life style of people of Mustang.

The route passes through several beautiful villages such as Samar, SYANGBOCHE. We also visited the famous chungsi cave (RANGCHUNG)) where guru padma sambava did his meditation. The Nilgiri and Annapurna's mountain ranges can be seen from the road.

The trail today passes through few small villages like tamagaun and zaite crossing Ni la 4200m pass. The landscape gets more arid and colorful with Annapurna and Nilgiri on the south. The contrast and the formation of landscape is very unique. On the way to Dhakmar we will stop to visit the village of Ghami/Ghemi to have the lunch. Afterwards we will trek towards the Dhakmar (Red Hill).

Dhakmar fascinates with its majestic beauty of the hills and the mountain formation. 

The route to it is different, we do not go through the towns but we are going to visit the most important place in Tibetan Buddhism, the first Lo-Ghyekar monastery in the middle of the desert is located like an oasis.

Lo Manthang the Capital city of Lo. The medieval walled city where the history culture and tradition of people of lowas is etched. The maze like alleys of lo-Manthang is an open museum.

Situated in the Famous trade route that stretch from Tibet till the southern plains of Himalaya.

The sakyapa monasteries of Lo-Manthang are sacred places for the people of Lo-Manthang.

We leave behind the capital of Lo and head towards the village of Yara. The trail bless us with the spectacular view of Annapurna and Nilgiri Himal.

Today we will visit two sky caves that are made accessible Tashi Kang and Luri gompa.

Tashi Kang is situated in the riverbed of Puyung Khola, few chambers of the caves are accessible in one of the chamber we can see a stupa constructed with paintings date back to 14th century or even earlier.

Luri gompa is another marvelous treasure we behold. Pitted caves on the colorful mountain walls and its unusual shapes around catch a glimpse.

The main sanctum of the cave is a rounded space that was hallowed out and smoothed within cave. In the center of the cave is a Chorten, six meters high, with painted figures on all sides of its rectangular base, on its dome. The dome ceiling is decorated with eight painted images of mahasiddhis.

After having a lunch at Yara we will hike towards Dhye. 

We will hike towards Tange with a magnificent view of the landscape and the mountains. The unusual shapes and colors of the landscape cannot go unnoticed in today's walk.

Tange is a very beautiful hamlet, it's a beautiful oasis. The contrast of landscape is astounding.

Today's route is long and we did not find any villages on the way. Maybe the most shocking landscape of any trip.

Today we return to the most modern civilization that we find these days, Muktinath has grown as a small city due to its importance of being an important pilgrimage site.