Upper and Lower Mustang: Permit, Wind, Caves and the Road to Lo Manthang
A kingdom that stayed separate until 1959, a permit that takes a week, and a wind corridor that dictates the shape of every day.
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Gandaki, NepalRegion
Mustang
The old kingdom of Lo behind the Annapurnas: a high desert of ochre cliffs and wind-carved canyons, walled Lo Manthang, and Tibetan Buddhist villages that stayed closed to outsiders until 1992.
28.9989° N, 83.8470° E · Open in map ↗