Upper Mustang Trek

The trek to Upper Mustang offers you the spectacular trekking into the remote Trans-Himalayan mountain area and the route entails traveling across desert like landscape with Tibetan influence culture. It lies just in the north of the main Himalayans ranges of Nepal. The trekking to mustang was officially opened from the year 1992.  Before 1991, this region was prohibited for foreign travelers to visit.  The adventure starts from world's deepest gorge Kaligandaki Region into world's highest regions of  Lo-Manthang Valley which passes through an almost tree-less barren landscape, a deadly steep rocky trail up and down hills and majestic panoramic views of Nilgiri, Annapurna, Dhaulagiri and several other snowy peaks. This is an area where you will trek to discover the wonders of the purely Tibetan architecture, language, their interesting culture and traditions.

Mustang is filled with various beautiful trekking zones where the high desert rain shadow of Himalayas receives a very little rainfall making this region dry over the year. The houses in Mustang are mostly made from stone with sun baked mud bricks because of wide availability of stones. Our Upper Mustang trek starts from the Jomsom up to Kagbeni which is the entry point of upper Mustang Region. Following the bank of Kaligandaki River we reach to the four story palace in Lo-Manthang which is some of the beautiful architectures of Mustang region. TIJI the three day long ritual also called “The Chasing of Demon” is one of the famous festivals of this mustang region.

The favorable months to trek to Upper Mustang are from April to November. Because of Upper Mustang being a rain Shadow area, we can do trekking in this part even in the monsoon season i.e. (June- Sept). But, during the monsoon season, trekking in the popular trails of Everest and Annapurna are not recommended.