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Sky Caves + Last Nomads of Upper Mustang - Nepal

From $4680
Hiking Trekking in Kathmandu

Trip at a Glance

  • Locations

    Kathmandu, Mustang Region, Nepal

  • Activities

    Adventure, Hiking Trekking

  • Price
    $4680 USD per person
  • Duration

    25 Days

  • Avg Distance

    150 miles

  • Departure Day(s) and Time(s)

    19 March 2017

  • Starting Location

    Kathmandu, Nepal

  • Price Includes

    Western + Sherpa Guide Upper + Lower Dolpo + ACAP Permits - Kathmandu Guest House - All Domestic Flights (4) - O2 Monitor + PAC Bag Sat Phone + InReach Medical Kit - Kamzang Journeys Trekking

  • Notes

    Our Kamzang Journeys Upper Mustang trek is the most unique and remote trip run in Upper Mustang, with local contacts with villagers and nomads, run in our special boutique Kamzang style!

Highlights

  • 17-day Upper Mustang Permit, A unique insight into 'Old Tibet', Lo Manthang, Mustang's ancient walled city.
  • 'Sky-cave' monasteries with exquisite murals, Luri Gompa & Tashi Kabum, Our hidden, sacred Upper Mustang!
  • The most far-flung of Mustang's medieval & colorful villages, Camping with Tibetan nomads & their yaks and sheep in their high plateau camps.
  • Fortresses, palaces & cave hermitages, Tibetan Buddhist monasteries, Incredible sculpted valleys and wild rock formations.
  • Some of the best Himalayan panoramas in Nepal (including Annapurna l nearly every day), the Kali Gandaki gorge & fossil collecting.

Trip Info

‘Mustang is a centre of the sky, the middle of the earth … the head of all rivers where horses grow swift.’
- Sienna Craig, ‘Horses Like Lightning’

Our Kamzang Journeys trek into remote Upper Mustang is one of this breathtakingly beautiful region’s most interesting and far-flung treks, following old salt-trade caravan trails into Mustang’s most remote regions. No other company camps with the nomads, and we also go to little visited regions and Buddhist ‘sky caves’ of Upper Mustang which we’ve explored over the past few years.
And a 17-day Upper Mustang permit!

Situated in the rain shadow of the Dhaulagiri range, the Buddhist kingdom of Mustang is one of Nepal’s most diverse and spectacularly beautiful regions. Sculpted canyons and fantastic rock formations, traditional, white-washed Tibetan-style villages, crumbling fortresses, royal palaces, unexplored cave complexes, Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and Himalayan snow-peaks characterize this spectacular region, a thumb sticking up into the Tibetan plateau.

Trekking Mustang’s most remote routes, we venture deep into the realm of the last nomads of Mustang (and perhaps Nepal), still living their traditional migratory lifestyle on the high plateaus bordering Tibet. We’ll trek along the eastern, winter route from the mythical walled city of Lo Manthang and explore the forgotten ‘sky-caves’ (some we’re some of the only Westerners to visit) as well as the renown Luri Gompa and Tashi Kabum, filled with some of the most exquisite murals of the Tibetan Buddhist world and dating back to ancient times.

We camp at some of Mustang’s most far-flung villages such as Dhe, Ghara, Yara and Tangge, enjoying a distinctive cup of salt-butter tea and bartering for locally-woven textiles with the villagers.

Upper Mustang and its walled capital, Lo Manthang, is a remote and starkly beautiful region, home to Tibetan Buddhism as well as the remnants of the more mystical Bon religion which pre-dates Buddhism. Mustang was first explored by a handful of intrepid Himalayan travelers and pilgrims in in the 50s and 60s, and we continue in their spirit of exploration. We journey along some of the least known routes to the more isolated villages in this sun-drenched region, often following the rocky Kali Gandaki river-bed, other times trekking on spectacular trails high above it, and descending through marvelously sculpted and multi-hued gorges.

Don’t miss this journey!

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