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“The exotic purification ritual for peace of the region of Mustang as well as world peace and to negotiate with sentient beings.”
Highlights of the Mustang Tiji Festival trekking
Tiji Festival is purification ritual that takes place at the beginning of every harvest season. The history of Tiji Festival goes many centuries back, but is embellished by myths and legends rather than recorded facts. The word Tiji originates from the word “Ten Che” which means “hope of Buddhism prevailing in the world for peace” and basically celebrates the triumph of God over demon. The 3 days ritual is celebrated by various kinds of dancing ceremonies in order to chase the devil away. It stands on the mythological story of Lo Manthang. Many centuries back a boy named Dorje Jono fights against his demonic father who creates havoc in the Mustang by creating water shortage, a very scarce resource in the region. Ultimately Jono defeats the demon and banishes him away from the arid land.
Starting in 2026, the Upper Mustang permit will be issued for the exact number of days required and will cost USD 50 per day. Previously, the permit was charged at USD 500 for a fixed minimum of ten days, regardless of the actual duration of travel. Under the new regulation, travelers can now obtain permits for any number of days, such as two, four, or more, without the previous ten-day minimum requirement. If the permitted duration is exceeded, an additional USD 50 per day must be paid before the permit expires. Individual restricted area permit is also issued now a days.
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Accomodation:
Hotel
Transport:
Private Vehicle
Welcome to Nepal !
Activities: Welcome with Flower Garland and a bottle of Water, and drive you to the hotel, just relax for the rest of the day to recover from your long journey.
Highlights: Explore Thamel, restaurants, bars and local shops.
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Accomodation:
Hotel
Meals:
Breakfast.
Transport:
Private Vehicle.
Activities: Pre-briefing with trekking guide, last minute shopping for your trip and Kathmandu valley sightseeing.
Highlights: Pashupatinath Temple, Boudhanath Stupa, Swaymbhunath (Monkey Temple) and Patan Durbar Square, cultural and historical sights of the Kathmandu Valley.
Accomodation:
Lodge
Meals:
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Transport:
Flight
Fly Hours: 25 minutes
Driving hours: 4 to 5 hours by Private vehicle.
Accomodation:
Lodge
Meals:
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Fly Hour to Jomsom: 16 minutes
Hours of walking: 3.5 hours
Difficulty: Easy.
Elevation: 2800m.
Views: Dhaulagiri (8167m) and Tukuche (6920m) in the west, Nilgiri (6940m) and the entire Annapurna massif to the south and southwest.
Highlights: The immensely pretty village of Kagbeni, the old monastery, Buddhist School and local activities.
Accomodation:
Lodge
Meals:
Breakfast, lunch and Dinner
Walking hours: 5hrs.
Difficulty: Moderate.
Elevation: 3100 M.
Highlights: Entering the restricted areas, Miles of Buckwheat, barley and wheat fields, apple orchards, the scattered white-washed houses of Tangbe, Village of Chhusang, Crossing Kaligandi River by foot.
Accomodation:
Lodge
Meals:
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Walking Hours: 5hrs
Difficulty: Moderate.
Elevation: 3570m.
Highlights: The views of beautiful landscape, the colorful village, hand crafted Buddhist chortens and walking amongst groves of poplar trees, Chuksi Cave, Views of Annapurna, Nilgiri and Bharkuti Himala.
Accomodation:
Lodge
Meals:
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Walking hours: 5 hrs.
Difficulty: Moderate.
Elevation: 3450m and 3950m on the pass.
Highlights: Standing on the pass in an alpine wilderness, Views of Himalayas, explore how local make plantation in Mustang, many Bhuddhist stupa, Tsrang monastery.
Accomodation:
Lodge
Meals:
Breakfast, lunch and Dinner
Hours of walking: 7 hrs.
Difficulty: Moderate to difficult.
Elevation: 3850m.
Highlights: Beautiful views of the surrounding Himalayas from Lo-Manthang, Explore Local market of Lo-Mangtang.
Accomodation:
Lodge
Meals:
Breakfast, lunch and Dinner
Activities: Morning Visit Namgyal Gompa and then on to Tingkhar. Afternoon after 12 Pm celebrate Teji Festival with Local people. Various dances and sacrifice rituals can be observed.
Accomodation:
Lodge
Meals:
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Activities: Morning visit Chosar Gumpa and Cave. Afternoon after 12 PM celebrate Teji Festival witl Local people.
Accomodation:
Lodge
Meals:
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Activities: Visit inside monasteris of Lo-mangthang. fternoon after 12 PM celebrate Teji Festival witl Local people.
(Tiji Festival Ends).
Accomodation:
Lodge
Meals:
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
While returning from Lo-Mangthan, we take a different route than the formers. Trek to Dhakmar via Gyakar with more than 1200 years old Ghar Gompa with Guru Rinpoche as the primary figure. The Gompa is also famous for its rock paintings. According to the legend, anyone who makes one wish at the Ghar Gompa, their wish is fulfilled. While exploring the local area there is high chance of dusty wind, so it is suggested to walk in the morning.
Accomodation:
Lodge
Meals:
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Today, we get back to Ghiling as our journey for our overnight stay after a long walk of 5-6 hrs. After arrival and lunch enjoy the day exploring the area, but it will be dusty wind in the afternoon, better to walk in evening time.
Accomodation:
Lodge
Meals:
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
We re-track back to Ghiling for the overnight stop after 5 hrs walk. You will have wonderful scenery during the journey with a Himalayan view. Enjoy your trip and overnight at teahouse.
Accomodation:
Lodge
Meals:
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
The trail from Chhuksang is all the way up that you are climbing over then 1,100m and through the very small track way inside the bushes and you will have a magnificient view of Himalaya Parbat dominated by Mt. Dhaulagiri (8,167m). Muktinath is a holy temple for Hindus where so many Neplai and Indian pilgrimage will come to show their devotion to hindu Gods, above that, the temple shows the co-operation between Hindusm and Buddhisum.
Accomodation:
Lodge
Meals:
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
The trail is all the way flat down through the very beautiful landscape and view of Mt. Dhaulagiri(8,167m), most of the way through the bank of Kaligandaki river, we walk through windy air but is a ralxing walk.
Accomodation:
Hotel
Meals:
Breakfast.
Transport:
Flight and Private Vehicle
Meals:
Breakfast.
Transport:
Private vehicle.
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The 3 days ritual Tiji festival is going to celebrate 5th May 2024 to 7th May 2024.
Upper Mustang Trekking is suitable for all kind of people who are moderately fit, not any previous adventures experience is required. Some physical fitness activities such as running, swimming and walking are recommended before your Mustang trek. Persons suffering from a pre-existing medical flaws must seek medical advice before considering the trek. Whilst on the trek, it is common to experience some discomfort before being fully acclimatized.
Yes, Global Holidays Adventure representative will be there to greet you outside of Terminal Hall. He will be displaying Global Holidays Adventure name card with your name on it. After that you will be transferred to pre-chosen Hotel.
You can get the visa at Tribhuwan International Airport after landing, furthermore it will be easier if you fill up the visa form by online (http://online.nepalimmigration.gov.np/tourist-visa) before taking the flight to Nepal. Entry Visa fees- at present is $ 30 for 15 day, $ 50 for 30 days and $ 125 for three month visa on entry to Nepal. You should bring following essential documents in the trip: Valid Passport: must be valid for up to 6 months. Travel insurance: you need to provide a copy of insurance paper to Global Holidays Adventure before you start the trek. Flight Tickets. Emergency contact numbers for T/C's bank, insurance, family contacts.
All types of Hotels from a budget to Luxurious including five star services are available in Kathmandu. Normally, Global Holidays Adventure offers three hotel services in our outline itinerary. We can also accommodate according to your choice. During Trekking: You will have teahouse/Lodges generally provide basic clean facilities with a mattress and a quit blanket. We can also offer Global Holidays Adventure's sleeping baggage if needed (which needs to be returned after the trip) but it’s always better to have a personal sleeping bag. We usually provide you single and double rooms as well as the occasional dormitory. During the peak season it is quite difficult to manage single room therefore double rooms are preferred in our outline itinerary.
Normally there are common toilet facilities in teahouses and lodges, which are usually neat and clean. Nowadays, some small number of teahouses and lodges offer attached restroom. We will provide you the best option as far as possible in this regard.
Normally there are hot water shower services in various teahouses and lodges. In the absence of such facility, the teahouse/lodges will provide you hot water bucket. The payment for the shower has to be made by yourself and the cost varies with the places.
Whilst on the trek, our porters who are honest and experienced, will take care of your luggage. All you need to carry is your small day bag for your personal belongings like camera, water bottle, sun cream, money etc. Normally, we assign one porters to carry the luggage of two trekkers.
Most of Teahouse cook a delicious range of mostly vegetarian fare Pasta, Tuna Bakes, Noodles, Potatoes, Eggs, Dal-bhat, Bread, Soups, Fresh Vegetable ( variety depends on the season) and even some desserts like Apple Pies, Pancakes and some interesting attempts at Custard. You will find a lot of garlic items on the menu, eat some every day because it assists with acclimatization. In many larger villages you may find some meat on the menu. You can always get hot chocolate, tea, coffee, hot lemon as well as soft drinks. Each day dinner and breakfast are used to take in the same lodge you spend the night. Lunch will be taken on the way to destination.
During the airport pick-drop and Kathmandu sightseeing we use private tourist vehicles of various categories such as cars, vans, micro, bus etc. according to size of the group. We take a domestic flight for Kathmandu-Pokhara-Kathmandu.
Upper Mustang is rain shadow area where you can go from august to mid December and February to May.
Weather in the mountains is notoriously difficult to predict. Generally, nights are chillingly cold, whereas, the days are warmer. Winter (January and February) will be a bit colder but the days can be quite beautiful and warm if the sun is out. There will be a bit of snow during the month of January, February and December. The temperature inside the teahouses/lodges are fairly maintained. You can always sit beside a fire to keep yourself warmer. The temperature could be as high as 20 degree c to 15 degree c low during the day time.
These facilities will be available in most of the places in your Hotel reception by paying some service charges. Don’t forget to bring your adapters!!
There are telephone services in most of the hotels/lodges from where you can make international calls. There are mobile network services available in most of the places. Above that, Global Holidays Adventure offers satellite phone services in every trekking packages.
ATM and credit card facilities can be used in Kathmandu, Pokhara andJomsom. Above that, you need cash payments for various service you need.
In Kathmandu, you can allocate $ 10-15 for lunch and dinner. It all depends on your spending habits. $. 15- 20 a day will be enough to buy bottles of water, chocolate and few drinks in Trekking.
Well it totally depends upon you. There is trend of tipping the guide and porters in trekking. Tipping is a good way to acknowledge their works and thank them in a better way, something they would cherish and support their daily lives.
In most places bottled water is readily available. If you wish to drink normal water, you need to use purifying aid, better if you have some for yourself.
In case you suffer from altitude sickness or any other problems, we will offer you the doctor’s prescribed medicines according to the type of problem facing you. We will descend you and incase of extreme cases, you will get rescued by the helicopter.
In case of any casualties, travel insurance will be a boon to recover the incurred expenses. In case of helicopter rescue, the helicopter charge, which is little expensive, can also be recovered by your insurance. So it a good act to check you insurance validity and policy, whether it recovers the rescue charges or not.
Yes, all the staffs of Global Holidays Adventure including guides and porters are insured to recover any kinds of casualties.
Yes, it is absolutely possible to add some more days to the trip. Along your trek we can add days at your request with additional costs to cover guides, porters, accommodation and food.
Yes, there are many options and choices to extend your holidays before or after your main trip. You can visit our other touring trips to add to the main event.
Turkey
I recently completed Tiji festival tour in Mustang with my friend. The tour was well organized by Samsher and Surya of Global Holidays Adventure. At the beginning I got a video of Mustang Tiji Festival in YouTube where I got the contact address of Global Holidays and book this trip from online. We did Kathmandu pokhara and Jomsom all the way by flight and take a Jeep to lomanthang. They provided us a luxury and comfortable land cruiser and excellent English speaking guide for our tour in Mustang. The place was over crowded because of the festival but our guide managed us very good tea house accommodation and foods. The festival was awesome which I have never seen before. Our guide take us to different monasteries and caves which were really beautiful and full of cultural attributes. Thank you Samsher and entire team for an amazing trip in Nepal.
Brussels, Belgium
In June we came back from our unforgettable trip to Nepal. It was my second trek in this amazing country. Our trek was organized by Global Holidays Adventure. We found them through google search and from the very first email exchange with Samsher we were convinced that we picked the right company. We always had very fast answer to all our multiple questions and all organizational problems have been solved brilliantly. The Trek was quite hard, very well organized and everything was perfect, also the weather . Special Thanks to our 2 brothers Sherpas, Dorchi and Chopel , always smiling and very collaborative: they also gave us a lot of information about the places, the monasteries and Buddhism in general. Thank you all. We will turn to Global Holidays Adventure again for an upcoming trek in Nepal !
Brussels, Belgium
In June we came back from our unforgettable trip to Nepal. It was my second trek in this amazing country. Our trek was organized by Global Holidays Adventure. We found them through google search and from the very first email exchange with Samsher we were convinced that we picked the right company. We always had very fast answer to all our multiple questions and all organizational problems have been solved brilliantly. The Trek was quite hard, very well organized and everything was perfect, also the weather . Special Thanks to our 2 brothers Sherpas, Dorchi and Chopel , always smiling and very collaborative: they also gave us a lot of information about the places, the monasteries and Buddhism in general. Thank you all. We will turn to Global Holidays Adventure again for an upcoming trek in Nepal !
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