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Upper Mustang Trekking 2013 Slideshow & Video

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

Himalayan Peaks of Nepal

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