Trekking Along Kali Gandaki to Mustang

Trekkers arrived at Nepal and check out Solu- Khumbu while in the darkness of Mount Everest. And
rightfully so, as Everest remains the highest maximum on the planet and wandering to the likes of
Gokyo Ri, Chukung Ri and Kala Pattar is a stunning journey in every feeling of the phrase.
Next hiking location of note inside the Nepal Himalayas is still the Annapurna Circuit, from Pokhara
across the Marsyangdi River valley for the hidden Manang area north of the fish tail mountain of
Machapuchare and the extraordinary Annapurna summits.
Many trekkers select the Annapurna Sanctuary, a satisfying journey upto the Annapurna base camp
that offers a sweeping panorama of High Himalayas from Dhaulagiri to Himalchuli and Manaslu. But
generally ignored could be the travel along the very base of the Kali Gandaki river gorge, yet the
connection with bridging through neighborhoods of Tatopani to Tukuche, moving from elevations of
5,000 to 8,500 feet above sea level, and finding out about in the vista presented by 26,800 feet high
Dhaulagiri massif for the west and 26,500 Annapurna Range towards the east is just astonishing.
Due to the fact the summits of the two mountain ranges are just some 20 kilometers apart, and both
tower to altitudes of more than 26,000 feet and also the Kali Gandaki River reduces its way between
them at an altitude of just some 6,000 legs, the vantage point of this kind of remarkable vertical
difference is really mind boggling.
But the topography, climatic conditions and physical features of the environment in general one
activities progressing north across the river from its lower reaches all the way to the water shadow
of the Himalayas are merely part of the secret of this travel. The trek offers an amazing view of
history and knowledge of a makeup and settlement patterns of the Nepal Himalayas.
Kali Gandaki is definitely a melting pot of countries, of Old Nepalese and cultures that moved in to
the region from the south in addition to the north.
The lower reaches of the Kali Gandaki River area, indicating the region in elevations below grain
growth control of around 5,000 feet above sea-level, were traditionally satisfied by two of so called
Historical Nepalese ethnic communities, specifically Gurungs and Magars. The Historic Nepalese
races, however, have not kept the only residents of the appealing middle-slopes area.

Because of this of Muslim invasions to the Indian subcontinent, required to flee, Brahmans, the caste
of Hindu priests, and Chetris, the descendents of the Kshatriya warriors caste of India, began to
move from your upper plains of India to the Midlands of Nepal, settling inside the rich altitudes
between 3,500 to 5,000 feet.
In effect of the migrations in the south, Gurungs and Magars shifted up to the mountains above the
water base of the Kali Gandaki gorge and after this live in altitudes of 6,000 to 8,000 legs with their
choice plant, noticed put drying off the eaves, being corn in the place of rice.
From your north, from Tibet right, came the Tibetan population groups, who completed in the
pouring rain shadow of the Himalayas, while in the Intrinsic Himalayan valleys, such as the
Baragaunle communities inside the side valleys of the Kali Gandaki behind Dhaulagiri as well as the

Annapurnas, or as-is the event of the Thakalis, choosing to settle along Kali Gandaki and its side
valleys although not below 8,000 legs, choosing less harsh climatic conditions than those of Upper
Mustang.
Even though the Thakalis to be able to boost their cultural status have since late 19th century
announced themselves as Hindus, first glimpse of the towns proves their Buddhist past. Near and
virtually in every Thakali village can be found long mani walls, chortens as well as now generally
dilapidated gompas. The Thakali area of Kali Gandaki therefore you might say represents the
melting point-of the Buddhist cultures from your north and also the Hindu cultures from the south.
Beyond Thakali villages, however, one certainly enters the region of Tibetan Buddhism and
continuing further upstream, on through the Baragaunle Bhote villages from village of Marpha on,
the Buddhist tradition dominates completely to
Mustang Trekking. The journey along the Kali Gandaki River area to Mustang indeed is really a
unique insight to the national and actual forces that formed the settlement patterns of the Nepal
Himalayas as well as for that reason alone is really a fascinating travel to undertake.