Upper Mustang Trekking

Upper Mustang Trekking, Trekking Guide Team offers travelers for a scenic journey to the Upper Mustang of Lo, although the actual headquarter of the Mustang district is Jomsom, but the real Tibetan style district lies to the north of Kagbeni and referred as Upper Mustang.

Upper Mustang trekking has an average elevation of 3,000 meters and is situated to the north of the giants peaks of world’s 7th highest Mt. Dhaulagiri at 8,167m and world’s 10th highest Mt. Annapurna I at 8, 091 meters and this main Himalayan range and geographically is part and extension of the highlands of Tibet plateau. It is a vast high valley, arid and dry, characterized by eroded canyons, colorful stratified rock formations and has a barren, desert-like appearance.

Upper Mustang trekking an out of this place on earth with desert-like appearance unique landscapes it’s centuries of Tibetan Buddhism and Bon-Po culture hosts every he colorful festival known as Teje where all monks and high priests offers prayer and masked dances to scare the evil spirit and to welcome the harvest god for more crops, such as barley, wheat and buckwheat and potatoes as side crops.

View From Upper Mustang Trekking
Once you are in Upper Mustang it has a moonscapes and few villages inhabits this places and it touches the border of Tibet at mere distance of 15 k.m. from the ancient walled city of Lho-Manthang where the king still exists, the other interesting things of Mustang is the canyon and cliffs where the monks used to meditate as it is the extension of Tibetan plateau the cultural way of life is like in remote Tibet. It is a vast high valley, arid and dry, characterized by eroded canyons, colorful stratified rock formations and has a barren, desert-like appearance.

A lot of geographic experts and writers and historians has passed this way to Tibet as it is still known as the Old Salt Trade Route or the Trans Himalayan Route.

Trekking Guide Team trips to Upper Mustang offers fascinating scenery with cultural and Buddhist traditions as it was for centuries using the flight to and from Jomsom to begin this wonderful journey.