We don’t need to decorate nature as
it is beautiful in itself. That’s why I love nature and I am lucky
that I was born in Nepal and motherer earth loves us very much. We
had beautiful mountains, rivers, lake and so on. I always wished to
see mountains. So me along with my friends decided to do trekking. We
choose Lantang Region as our destination. For the 1st time I saw
mountain from so near. For the 1st time I saw snow, for the 1st time
I saw glaciers and yak. It was wonderful experiences and I was
mesmerised by the beauty of nature. On the way back from Langtang I
met a tour guide. He was with his group. Me along with my friends
start talking with him about Nepal and its beauty. He start telling
me about Upper Mustang. The way he was describing mesmerised me. I
started imagining about Mustang.
I thought that once in my life time I
will go there and see all those with my own eyes. When I came back to
Kathmandu, I started looking for the information about the Upper
Mustang. Although there were plenty of beautiful pictures from Upper
Mustang but there was not much information that could help me. I
decided to trek to Upper Mustang.
My journey starts
from Kathmandu. On the bus I met some guys who were also going to
Upper Mustang as porter ans some guys as guide. They were so friendly
and helpful, I feel I am travelling with my family and I make them good friends. They really were nice people,down to earth and I asked them can I join their group and without hesitation they answered yes. I was so happy. Next morning I reached Beni. From Beni we took another bus
for jomsom. I took seat near window so that I can see beautiful
scenario. It was exciting journey for me because I never imagined my
dream will be so easily fulfilled. After few hours drive i reached
Ghasa for lunch. Ghasa is beautiful village and it has one army camp
and a bus park. After lunch my our journey starts again and the
scenes become more interesting and beautiful. One can see beautiful
mountains with alpine forest from so near. I wanted to stop and go
there and breath fresh air form those forest and mountains but I
forgot I was on public bus and it has to be on time to its
destination. All the way scenes were getting more beautiful and
interesting and finally we arrived village called Marpha. We decided
to stay at Marpha and everyone gets down from bus and we all headed
towards hotel.
Marpha is a beautiful and peaceful
village and it is called Kingdom of Apple. Here Apple farming is
famous all over Nepal and we can get apple product like dry apple,
apple juice, apple wine and so on. It has same style of houses and
same colour and very peaceful and most of people are Thakalis.
Thakalis people are famous for their food and taste.
View of marpha
Marpha houses
Next day we start our journey at early
5 am. Morning was wonderful when we see 1st ray of sun on the
mountains and everywhere was peace, no wind at all. After one hour
walk we reached Jomsom and it is head quarter so was little crowded
then Marpha.To my surprise I meet Krishna, who is social worker and I did volunteering at his school for two months. Since then I walked together with his group.
After having we started our journey
and our destination was up to Kagbeni. I saw people cycling and that
makes me crazy. That was so interesting and I was really feeling
jealous of those people on cycle. Many pilgrimage we also on the way
and the destination was Muktinath so there were many people on the
way and so many hired Jeep also for Muktinath and Lomanthang. I was
so happy and excited as I was on my dream place. At the morning it is
so nice but after 11 its so windy and really dusty road sometimes. So
many thing playing on my mind as I never seen such place all over my
lifetime. On the way I met some Italians and we start talking. They
were so happy and asking me where I am from. When I say I am from
this country they got surprise and with a beautiful smile they told'
You are really lucky to be Nepali'. This make proud and happy and I
shouted 'this is my country'. That was crazy moments. Those Italians
got busy with taking pictures and I moved ahead. Following the
kaligandaki river finally I arrived Kagbeni after 4 hours walk.
Vie of kagbeni
Kagbeni
Kagbeni is one of the beautiful village
with its Tibetan culture. It is historical place and called 'Door to
the kingdom Of Mustang'.Its ancient village that still retains it
medieval charm.
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