Tourism In Nepal

Upper Mustang Trekking 2013 Slideshow & Video: TripAdvisor™ TripWow ★ Upper Mustang Trekking 2013 Slideshow Mustang is a place where beauty and happiness flourish despite hardships and obstacles.  Mustang has a long, rich and complex history that makes it one of the most interesting parts of Nepal. However, a Mustang is geographically difficult to leave but the beauty of this place is more difficult to explain in words. While one visits this isolated and mystic region once, one feels enchanting and inspired. Buddhist monasteries and nunneries are built into forbidding cliffs. There are many monasteries from the 14th century, Buddhist shrines, Thanks, Mandalas, and deities in and around the cliff. It is believed that there are many caves where Tibetan monks have meditated.The starkly beautiful, windy, arid Tibetan plateau is unbroken for many hours of trekking or riding on, horseback is also other exciting parts of Mustang. Continue

8000 meters and above In 1950, a France expedition summited the first mountain over 8000 m at the highest. It was Annapurna I, and although countless attempts had been made on Mt. Everest the higher than the highest mountain in the world, on the expedition had succeeded until then. These mountains are known as the eight-thousands and all fourteen of them lie in Asia. Out of the fourteen, Nepal has a big share of eight. They are Mt. Everest (8848m), Kanchenjunga (8586m) , Lhotse (8516m), makalu (8463m), Cha Oyu (8201m), Dhaulagiri 98167m), Manaslu (8163m) and Annapurna (8091m). These lofty Peaks are part of the Himalaya ( The Above of the snows, Him= snow, alayadwelling place,) and from the Natural boundary wall between Ne [a; and Tibet/China in the north and between India and Nepal in the east, the highest peak outside Asia is the Aconcagua (6959m) of the Andes in Peru, South America and the highest mountain in Europe, Mt, Elbrus is significantly smaller, rising no higher than 56...

Most expeditions to the highest point on Earth are staged at Everest Base Camp (EBC). The route to EBCis one of the most popular trekking routes in the Himalayas and is visited by thousands of trekkers each year.

Hidden inside a narrow cave of just five feet high and six feet deep in the Lo Manthang (Mustang) region was a tomb which was formed by digging a shaft into the ground and then expanding it into a chamber. Located at Samdzong in Upper Mustang , the shaft tomb was just one among many of such mortuary caves veiled in the mystical kingdom. In 1987, when a tunnel was being built for a small-scale hydroelectric project in Chokhopani in Mustang, a burial cave was exposed by accident. The project in fact led to a distinct discovery of 2,000 to 3,000-year-old human corpses. [Beak]In Embark of Lower Mustang, a corpse of a mother and an infant in a sleeping position that dated back to 450 BC was also revealed. The discovery was part of an excavation project by German researchers from the University of Cologne in Germany along with the Department of Archaeology (DoA) of Nepal. Human remains from Samdzon, Mustang. Anthropologist Mark Aldenderfer says that it was hard for his team to believ...

Updated November 2012 by Howard and Sue Dengate! These notes are freely downloadable here thanks to Howard and Sue Dengate! Since these track notes were first written in 2010 there have been huge changes on the Manaslu- Tsum trek. In season, it is now easily done as a 20-day lodge trek with accommodation available every night. More than 10,000 copies of these track notes have been downloaded so I have fully updated them following our latest visit. The Manaslu Valley Trek is more remote and spectacular than many, with rough steep tracks and less than luxurious accommodation. It is culturally fascinating with strong continuing links to Tibet in the upper Buri Gandaki (called Nupri ‘the western mountains’) and the Tsum Valley, and even has the Larkya La (5160m) as a challenge. The views of Mt Manaslu, eighth highest mountain in the world, are marvelous and close. The trek around Manaslu can be done as a lodge trek while even Tsum now has several lodges, good homestays an...