Upper Mustang, The last kingdom of the Himalaya

Welcome at Airport and transfer to Hotel, Briefing in the Evening

Accommodation: Hotel

Drive to pokhara, we arrive at afternoon, check in at Hotel

Evening: walking along the side of Phewa lake.
Hour of transfer: 6 hours

Early morning, we take flight from Pokhara to Jomsom. We fly between Annapurna nd Dhaulagiri, best moment to see to 8000m mountains. Arrive at Jomsom , preparation for the Upper Mustang trek. Take a Jeep to KagBeni village, Gate way to Upper Mustang. Visit the village and its Monastery. After onwards we drive through the bank of Kali Gandaki river, pass through the Tangbe village and Arrive at Chusang Village.

Flight: 25 min
Transfer in Jeep: 3h 30min
Visit: Kagbeni village, its monastery
Accommodation: Lodge

Our trek starts from here; we follow the Kali Gandaki River, and arrive the first village Chele, we walk through the village Mani, we follow the trail to the beautiful village of Ghayakar . A steep ascend, we arrive to the first pass as we continue the trail we see the second pass. The Village of Samar is on our view with its Monastery dominating the village.

Elevation Positive: +750m
Elevation Negative:-150m
Accommodation: Lodge
Working hour: 4h30

After the samar village we follow the path which leads us to the Chungsi cave. We arrive at chorate pass. The view from the pass to Kali-Gandaki gorge is impressive. We can understand the formation of the Kali River and its gorge. We visit the Chungsi cave. As it’s has a monastery inside it and the statue of Padmasambhabha (Guru Rimpoche). After the visit we re-ascend the gorge to arrive to the Samboche
village. Onward the path leads us to the beautiful village of Giling. It’s monastery which dates to 16th centurary and its impressive Chorten .

Elevation Positive: +1100m
Elevation Negative: -1150m
Accommodation: Lodge
Walking hour: 5 hrs

We follow the trail, which passes near to the school, climbing up to the pass; we have impressive view over the Ghami village. Upon arrive we visit the village monastery, in the pass it was a shelter against the invader. We resume our walk towards Dhakmar. Short climb, the valley opens up little by little and reveals the sumptuous red cliffs of Dhakmar. Legend has it that the cliffs Red color would have been impregnated with the blood of a demon when he was put to death by the Guru Rimpoche. He visited Tibet in 8th century passing through Mustang.

Elevation: +700
Elevation:-450m
Walking hour: 5hrs
Accomodation : Lodge

We start our day early, as we have a long day a head. Walking through the cliff of Dakmar, we climb up Mui la pass. The trail crosses the Tibetain Plateau descending down to the valley. we arrive at the Oldest Monastery of Mustang Lo Gekhe Ghar ( Ghar Gompa) which is well preserve too. After the visit of the Monastery, we continue climbing up the path uphill steady towards Chogo la pass, highest point of the trek. A long descent awaits us then, through the high plateaus which announce the proximity of Tibet, until reaching the capital: the fortified city of Lo Manthang

Elevation poisitve: +900m
Elevation:-750m
Walking Hour: 8 hrs
Accomadation: Lodge

The whole day is dedicated to the visit of the Fortified city. Lo mangtang used to the centre of commence between India and the Tibet in 14 and 15 century. In Morning we visit the Monastery Tupchen Monastery and Jambhla Lha Khang which dates back to 14th century. There is also the restoration work going with the help of Italian artist. The Royal palace and its surrounding. The Mandala painting and the fresco of the monastery is the real treasure of the visit. Walking around the alley of the fortified city is a life time experiment.

Accommodation: Lodge

The day is visit to the surrounding of Lo-Mangthang. Early morning we take a jeep to go to see the Kongchok lng cave. It is one of the fabulous sites. The cave was found by some shepherd some time back. It was study by some speleology. They found the fresco of Buddhist divinities which date back to 13 century. On our way back we take the jeep to visit the Choser / jong cave. And also visit the Niphu Monastery embedded in the cliff. At the end of day returns back to LO-Mangthang.

Elevation positive: +250m
Elevation Negative -250m
Walking hour: 3hrs
Accommodation: Lodge

We leave the capital Lo this morning. We begin by ascend of the Lo day la pas. We walk through the Tibetan plateau until we reach Dhi la pass. We had a steep descend a head, after the descend we arrive at Dhi village a prosperous village situated at the bank of Kaligandaki. We walk along side of Yara Khola, we might find some fossil (Ammonite) here. The source of the yara khola is Damorkunda. . Yara is well- known for its large vertical cliff carved by millennia, including dozens of troglodyte caves.

Elevation positive: +700m
Elevation negative:-900m
Walking hour: 6hrs

This is the excursion day, as well follow the yara stream we reach a place known as Tashi Kabum . This place has a cave with Stupa/ choprten inside. Its date back to the 15th century. It has fresco inside of the Buddhist divinities. As we walk further we arrive on the other site known as Luri Gumpa. This Monastery date back to 14
century has also a Cave inside with fresco. After the visit we descend to Ghara village, we have some glimpse of Mount Dhaulagiri.

Elevation positive:+400m
Elevation Negative:-400m
Walking hour: 5hrs
Accommodation: Lodge

We leave the beautiful Yara village, we cross the yara stream and walk along the vast Tibetan plateau, before descending to the Dhi Khola. We have a steep climb a head, leading the sertang pass (3900m). After the pass a vast Tibetan plateau, with a vue of Annapurn and Dhaulagiri range. As we descend down to Tangge village, we can see the Huge Chorten. These are the largest chorten of Mustang region. Tangge one of the beautiful village has some cultivated land with beautiful greenery.

Elevation positive:+ 850m
Elevation negative: 1050m
Walking hr: 6hr
Accommodation: Lodge

Early morning depart, as the day is the longest walking day of the program. After the Tangge village, we cross the Yak Khola, the climb is steep until the pass, and with a good effort we reach the pass. Descending down on the other side there is Pha. We walk through the Tibetain Plateau. After few hours, we can see the Chusang village. We need to descend. It is steep too and long. . Finally we arrive at Chusang village.

Elevation Positive: +1250m
Elevation Negative:-1750m
Walking hour 9hrs
Accommodation: Lodge

Leaving Chusang village, on the way we came up to tetang village. Beautiful village with colorful mani walls and chorten. After the village, gradually climbing up lead us to Guy la pass. From the pass super vue of kali gandaki gorge, Nilgiri and Dhaulagiri massif. On the other side is Lower Mustang. Upon arrive on Mukinath, we visit the temple of Muktinath. The temple has a 108 fountain. Hindu pilgrimage comes here to visit the temple.

Elevation positive: +1250m
Elevation negative:-550m
Walking hour : 5-6hrs.
Accomoation : Lodge

We leads the Muktinath village, we follow the trail which leads to the Lupra village. A Bon village, the Bon religion is the ancient religion of Tibet. After the visit of village we came to join the classic trek of Annapurna. We walk down the kaligandaki bed and reach the Jomsom Village. Capital of Mustang.

Elevation positive: +300
Elevation negative: 1200m
Walking hour: 5hrs
Accommodation: Lodge

Flight from jomsom to Pokhara.
Accommodation: Hotel at Pokhara
Visit of Shanti stupa at Pokhara

Flight from Pokhara to Kathmandu,
Sight seen of Kathmandu valley

Transfer to Airport for the departure.