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Muktinath Slideshow
Muktinath
Travel Blogs from Muktinath, Nepal
Earth, wind, fire and water
This is a top pick! ... people would walk all the way from India to here and why rich people helicopter in from India and take a jeep to Muktinath. Inside the temple is a special natural phenomenon. We removed our boots, leather for obvious reasons gets frowned upon ...
Road Trip: Costs, Permits and Road Construction
This is a top pick! I returned to the road to Lhasa in the morning. After watching the clouds for hours, without a ride, I walked to the nearby town of Hor. Soon, I had a ride with a Toyota Landcruiser at a bargain price. The driver was heading back east as ...
Annapurna Circuit - Day 7 - Little Up, Little Down
This is a top pick! May 15th - Day 7 - Upper Pisang (3310 m) to Manang (3540 m) Total Kilometres: 90 Today: 20 Morning broke with incredible views of Annapurna II and the surrounding mountains. Spectacular. We had chosen Upper Pisang because the views were supposed ...
Annapurna Circuit - Day 12 - THE PASS
This is a top pick! May 20th - Day 12 - Throung Phedi (4450 m) - Thorung La Pass (5416 m) - Muktinath (3800 m) Total kilometres: 121 Today: 16 The Pass. Notice the capital "P". This ain't no lower case pass. I don't think a day went by without talking about the ...
Annapurna Circuit - Day 10 - Himalayan Laxatives
This is a top pick! May 18th - Day 10 - Manang (3540 m) to Yak Kharka (4050 m) Total Kilometres: 99 Today: 9 The self surgery on my feet seemed to help. Still sore, but much better than before. It was a late start today. The distance wasn't too great, and Pia ...
Annapurna Circuit - Day 9 - Old Chinese Penises
This is a top pick! ... told him I didn't know if I wanted one. He came last night to put one last effort into getting my business. He said to Muktinath (3 days), he would only charge me 5000 rupees! I tried to let him down gently by saying we were staying in Manang an extra ...
Mountain Magic
This is a top pick! ... Kate got accustomed to the altitude. Our final destination was another 900m up (to 3800m) at the pilgrim site of Muktinath where we were completely surrounded by snowcapped mountains seemingly within a stones throw away. A magnificent reward for a ...
Day 2: Dzarkot to Muktinath to Jomsom
This is a top pick! This day was super long. We left Dzarkot at 07:40 and started uphill to finally see Muktinath in all its religious glory. Muktinath is a holy site for Buddhists and Hindus, as it hosts the elements of earth, water, fire and wind in one ...
Annapurna Circuit - Day 8 - Nepali Chicken
This is a top pick! May 16th - Day 8 - Manang Acclimatization Day (3540 m) At a great hotel here in Manang. After breakfast, the three of us walked over towards the lake and glacier. Walking on the ridge there were a few points where the path was about a foot wide with ...
Day 10, High Camp to Muktinath
This is a top pick! ... hours of walking, we were down at the bottem of the mountain. We still had another 45 minutes of walking before we got to Muktinath. It was a nice walk, and as Muktinath came into view, a huge temple complex came before us. We walked past it and into ...
Annapurna Circuit Trek
I'll be out of contact with the world for the next 18 days, while I trek around the Annapurna Circuit Trek! I should be back in Pokhara on 31st March or thereabouts... ... 2 weeks later and I'm still alive, although 15 days of trekking has taken its ...
Days 73 to 77 - Trek: Besi Sahar to Manang
We woke up very excited. Hiking the Annapurna Circuit was a focal destination on our trip not to mention the longest and highest trek either of us had ever done. Ram picked us up at our hotel with a car and driver. We drove for about 6 ...
To Muktinath
... stop gave us enough time to see the towns. On our way to Kagbeni, the town we stopped at before our final plunge towards Muktinath, we went through the strongest winds I've ever felt before. I usually love the wind, but it had quite a different effect on ...
Thorong La Pass
Sinead Day 11 High Camp - Muktinath (3,800m) We crossed Thorong La Pass (5416m), the highest in the world, at sunrise today. It was very cold and very beautiful. We set out at 3.30am in pitch darkness, our torch beam lighting the ...
Over the Pass
This is the second of the three 'vlogs' I made on the trek! This one I made right at the top of the Pass, if I thought it was cold at High Camp, I was not prepared for the Pass at all! We left HC around half 6, and it took us around 3 hours in the snow ...
Days 78 to 81 - Trek: Manang to Muktinath
... place in the world. Further down the valley we stopped for a brief lunch before continuing the descent. Above Muktinath sits a compound housing a shared campus of Hindu & Buddhist temples, monastery’s and baths. Many devoted ...
Anapurna Circuit - Donkey trail
... at 5416 metres as the oxygen level is only 50% up here. We did however end up making good time. We arrived at Muktinath our destination before 12 pm, but i suffered the consequences the next day! My knees were in agony we climbed for 4500 metres to ...
Annapurna Circuit - Days 1-5
... weather is nice though now that the sun seems to be burning off the cloud layer that has existed for the entire time I've been in Nepal so far. Even though we were following a "road" for some of the day, a road is simply something a little wider ...
Hello from High Camp!
Hi Everyone, This is the first of three 'vlogs' I made whilst on the trek, the videos explain most of whats going on at the time, but i'll fill in some background too! I made this video when I got to 'High Camp' which is the highest you can stay this ...
Trek in Annapurnas
... They also only carry light daypacks - but they each have a porter carrying 304- kg per person. Day 2 start at 6 and climb to Muktinath at 3800 meters. On the way some poor guy has died overnight, the family huddle around his body and get the funeral pyre ...
Mustang – The Salt Route
Mustang or Kingdom of Lo is a remote Himalayan province situated north of the Himalayan (Annapurna and Dhaulagiri) ranges in Nepal. It is a high altitude arid region (250-400 mm of rain) as it lies in the northern rain shadow of the Himalayan Range. ...
Les 8000
... les sommets geants. Il y a une explication geographique a cela : un goulet d'etranglement stoppe net la mousson venant du Nepal. Ainsi les vallees juste au pied de l'Everest, baignees d'humidite, sont luxuriantes et se vantent meme de posseder les forets ...
Thorung La Pass
... for both me and Kirsten to fall asleep again. May 2nd High Camp (4800m) to Thorung La (5416m) Thorung La (5416m) to Muktinath (3800m) The last part of the climb, which should have been the hardest part due to high altitude was in fact quite easy. ...
Ode aan de Chinese WC
Ik doe de deur open en krijg een sterke geur van ammoniak in mijn gezicht, het lijkt wel of ik een fles ammoniak zelf binnenstap. Voor mij een klein verhoogje, volledig bekleed met tegels in een ondefinieerbare kleur of zijn het nu kleuren, het is ...
Getting High in Tibet
The Tibetan plateau averages 4,000 meters or 13,200 feet high... meaning the valleys and farmland lie around 4,000 meters. Most passes are around the 5,000 meter range (16,500 feet) with 7,000 meter peaks all over the place (23,100 feet). Then, of ...
De retour a Kathmandou
De retour a Kathmandou apres un trek extraordinaire! Le calme des montagnes est maintenant chose du passe, et Kathmandou est toujours aussi bruyante. Les nepalais adorent le bruit. Les klaxons (tout le temps, sans arret), la musique a fond, les ...
Setting out for a month
I planned to trek for 3 weeks in the Annapurna region of the Nepal Himalaya. I ended up taking a month because it was so cool out there. Here is what I set out with.. Tent Thermarest (plus foam roll mat due to slow puncture) Stove and two fuel ...
Frozen lakes
I spent the first couple of weeks with a German friend, Florian, he was up for everything like me so we worked well together. We covered about 20-30km per day up and down. Followed the River Masyangdi, and had a couple of baths in it, one ...
Trek autour des Annapurna-le sommet
L ascension. Comme nous avons eu a plusieurs reprises l intention de revenir sur nos pas vue la dangerosite du sentier, Sebastien, alias le sage, tentais de nous motiver. Son adage 'Ce n est pas la destination qui importe, mais le chemin pour s y ...
Where the Great Trek REALLY started
... stop was a few adrenaline-filled days around the Pokhara area. Who's afraid of heights??? *************************** We arranged our entire Nepal trip through a Nepalese agent called "Trekking Team" who we recommend both for value and authenticity of ...