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Tiji Festival 2016

Tiji Festival is an age old convention being done in the Upper Mustang area since quite a while back. Flowed around the Tiji myth, this celebration is prominent, not just among the occupants of the Upper Mustang district, yet is picking up overall distinguishment among travelers everywhere throughout the world. Amalgamated with the perfectly mysterious Upper Mustang Trek, the Tiji Festival can be seen with full pizazz amid the month of May. Starting 2016, the celebration will be hung on fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth of May, a three day convention. Lo Manthang is the capital of this positively extraordinary locale installed in Nepal, however confined totally regarding conventions and societies from whatever remains of the world. Untouched by the domains of urbanization and modernization, trekking the region obliges uncommon grant from an enlisted trekking organization. This dry parched district is generally without downpour and the Tiji Festival is completed to spare the a...

Trekking Nepal's most hair-raising passes

When people talk about trekking in Nepal, there's one question on everyone's lips. How high did you go? That's more than just bravado – with Nepal's tortuous topography, altitude is something you have to think about every day. Trails in Nepal climb higher than the summits of the tallest mountains in Europe, and conquering the high passes of the Himalaya is a badge of honour for any hiker worth their hiking boots. Part of the glory of trekking in the Himalaya is how high you can go – because of the latitude, the snowline starts higher than the summits of many mountains further away from the Equator. However, this is not an environment to be take lightly, as the events in Annapurna National Park on 12 October 2014 tragically demonstrated. Dozens of trekkers perished after blizzards struck the upper stages of the Annapurna circuit in Nepal's worst ever trekking disaster. On any trek, it is essential to make sure you are properly equipped for the condi...