Upper Mustang Camping Trek

Overview

Upper Mustang Camping Trek is one of this breathtakingly beautiful region’s most culturally interesting and least known treks. In this trek we follow the old salt trade caravan route and pilgrimage trails through Mustang’s most remote valleys, villages, canyons, and high nomadic plateaus, we explore Upper Mustang’s Buddhist ‘sky caves’ (ancient burial sites and Buddhist mural caves). During our trek, we camp with Tibetan nomads, who still live traditionally in their yak-hair tents, tending their goats, sheep, and yaks.

In this we venture deep into the realm of the last nomads of Mustang, still living their traditional migratory lifestyle on the high plateaus bordering Tibet. On this trek, we hike along the high eastern, winter route from the mythical walled city of Lo Manthang, and explore forgotten ‘sky-caves’ and visit the renowned Luri Gompa and Tashi Kabum, which house some of the most exquisite murals in the Tibetan Buddhist world. We camp at Mustang’s most far-flung villages Dhe, Ghara, Yara, Sam Dzong and Tangge.