Himalayan Companion’s an ultimate journey to the frontiers of Dolpo, is Upper Dolpo Immersion trek is one of the unique trek of West Nepal.
The enthralling journey winds through the remote and rugged isolated villages, rarely visited tracks, and connects to the pilgrimage paths, an ancient trading routes wild, along with rocky and stony trails. We explore eastern and northern corners of Dolpo near the China border and witness their live, how they are living in such an extreme geographical setting.
Upper Dolpo Immersion trek, mostly takes you in the Upper Dolpo villages which are almost guarded by passes around the villages. Hence, encountering with high passess above 5000m plus is normal routine of this trip.
Dolpo the Bon and Buddhism, still preserves ancient indigenous Bon religion emerged from Tibet and Tibetan Lama Buddhism. Century old Bon and Buddhist monasteries, revered mountain and sacred valley make curiosity in Buddhism. Spritual heart of Dolpo, the thunder dragon mountain Crystal Mountain towering above the Shey Gompa is an immense pilgrims of Dolpo. Every 12 years cycle of Tibetan lunar calendar, on the ‘Dragon Year’ thousands of visitor gathered in this holy place.
The vultures roaring in the blue sky, blue sheep and marmot teasing from sides of trails and the foot prints of elusive Himalayan big cat ‘Snow leopard’ appearing on trekking path is quite different experience that found in Dolpo is nowhere else in the world.
Upper Dolpo Immersion trek, passes through the lap of Mukot Himal and Dhaulagir range at the beginning few weeks, barren landscape and flat valleys of Chharka, and Panzang valley in the second part of trek, third part of trek we explore the frontier village of Upper Dolpo like, Kuwa, Pho and Bhijer situated at lap of the Danphe Sail mountain and its neighboring Tibetan plateau range and at end the trek, we come along the Dolpo’s sacred land ‘Shey Gompa’ and most beautiful turquoise Phoksundo Lake and Ringmo village.
Danphe Sail is a legendary mountain located in the northern corner of Dolpo, It separated the Dolpo and China. Once upon in 1900 AD, a Japanese Jen monk ‘Eaki Guwachika’ was on his way to Tibet, and he had considered Danphe Sain as his ‘a guide as Mountain’.
