Equipped with natural beauty,straddled among himalayas,marvellous geographical structures,Mustang's been able to manage a place between top ten destinations of world.
Mustang where you can feel the presence of nature very closely is blessed with immense scenic grandeur which definitely makes you fall in love with this place.
Mustang on the whole cannot be summed up in paragraph,one must have to visit to get real life experience of heaven on earth.
This place attracts thousand of tourists from the nation itself and all across the globe.
First time witnessing mustangi culture and tradition for anyone is heartwarming and fascinating experience.
Mustang is one of the 75 districts of nepal.It lies in western region in dhaulagiri zone and situated between dhaulagiri and nilgiri mountains.It is small and very beautiful place of nepal covering an area of 3573 square km. and approx 13452 population according to latest census.Jomsom is the headquarter of mustang.
Muktinath is regarded as sacred and holiest place for both Hindus and Buddhists.It is located in muktinath valley at an altitude 3,710 at the foot of Thorong la mountain parts in mustang,nepal.The temple premise is close to Ranipauwa village.It is one of the 51 Shakti peetha(significant pilgrimage site).within hindus muktinath is reffered as mukti kshetra,it literally means the place of liberation(moksha).Although temple is small,it is one of the eight most sacred shrines of Hindus.
The temple courtyard is surrounded by 108 bull faced holy taps for sacred bath purpose.within hindus,it is believed that sacred bath under these all holy taps removes all bad karma.The worship at this temple is conducted by buddhists.
Mustang is connected both by roadways and airways.By road it takes around 6 hours from Myagdi,Beni to reach jomsom and by airways it takes 20 minutes from Pokhara.Due to difficult geographical structures roadways is bit more challenging and risky.Despite being risky most of the visitors prefer travelling by their motorbike.one can either trek or hire keep.
Attractions:
Mustang is divided into two parts: upper and lower mustang.There are 16 VDCs in mustang among which 8 lies in upper mustang.upper mustang is influenced by tibetian culture where as lower mustang is filled with thakali culture.Tribes of Gurung and Thakali are mainly dispersed in mustang.sherchan,gauchan,bhattachan,tulachan and muktinath are some of the temples of mustang.
Muktinath temple,kagbeni and upper mustang are the main attraction of mustang district.
Both upper and lower mustangi people are seen busy in promoting and preserving their own cultures and set of traditions.
TG parva is one of the popular festival of upper mustang which continues from 17th century.
Mustang is also called as the city of Stupas as there are almost 64 stupas.
Kaligandaki river flows from Nhubine Himal Glacier in the mustang region.Due to avalibility of shaligram stone(lord vishnu),the colour of water seems black.
This place is also famous for Apple,including yarsagumba and many herbal plants.
The houses here are more than 700 years old,mainly made up of clay and stone.
Muktinath temple:
The temple courtyard is surrounded by 108 bull faced holy taps for sacred bath purpose.within hindus,it is believed that sacred bath under these all holy taps removes all bad karma.The worship at this temple is conducted by buddhists.
After holy bath pilgrims are expected to offer a prasad to deity. suitable time to visit muktinath is from march to June due to good weather.
