Mustang Tiji Festival Trekking

About Trip

Mustang Tiji festival trekking destination is one of the most popular and demanded trekking package among the clients of Nature Adventure Trekking and Expedition. Tiji festival is a three day ritual known as the chasing of the Demons observed in May. This festival is centered with the myth. Tiji is the story of a deity named Dorje Jono who had battled against the demon father to save the Kingdom of Mustang from destruction. The demon father wreaked havoc on Mustang by creating a water shortage. Dorje Jono eventually defeated the demon father and banished him from the land. This festival is observed worshipping god for demanding the water and good crops. During the festival monks dress with their traditional customs and masks and perform dances and rituals that supposed to drive away evil spirits. Similarly, people from all over Mustang gather in Lo Manthang being dressed in their finery and celebrate this festival.

Therefore, this trekking package is for exploring the mysterious customs, rituals and lifestyles of people living in Mustang district. Mustang is one of the mysterious trekking destinations in the country. It is one of the most popular and superb trekking destination primarily for exploring the weird nature wonders. The trail goes through Lo Manthang that lies in the very heart of Mustang—the best preserved destination and pass through treeless barren landscape and barren moonscape of eroded sandstone pillars and discontinuous moraine terraces, which together present a colorful mosaic.

Mustang is a remote district lies to the north of the Annapurna Region on the Tibetan border, where you will have an opportunity to explore numerous of Buddhist monasteries and nunneries built with forbidding cliffs and mountain ledges. One of the attractions in Mustang district is Kagbeni. It is a quaint medieval town nestled in apple orchards and encircled by snow-mountains and the Lo Manthang, an ancient capital city, built of whitewashed mud bricks and teeming with Buddhist prayer wheels and Stupas, seeming to arise from the earth itself. There are very few guesthouses and restaurants in the region and therefore, you need to be well equipped and only the camping trekking is possible to organize.

Mustang is located in the Himalayan shadow, therefore rains much less than the rest of other areas in the country, thus possible to have trekking during the rainy season. It is one of a few places in the country where there is long-lived and a very close-niche life, as it has remained inaccessible to outsiders for long time. This isolation helped people of Mustang to maintain their lifestyle and heritage that remained almost unchanged for centuries. Every traveler are required to take permission to have trekking in the Mustang, since it is the restricted area trekking, you are with Nature Adventure Trekking and Expedition team, you do not need to worry on this sort of administrative proceedings, it does arrange all the required proceedings prior to visit.

Mustang, Tiji festival trekking begins with drive from Kathmadu to Pokhara and flight to Jomsom then the trek starts through Kagbeni, Tsarang, Lomanthang, Ghami,Gelling then return back to Kagbeni, Jomsom then fly back to Pokhara and subsequently to Kathmandu.. Upper Mustang Trekking is restricted area from Kagbeni. So, we have to take special permit cost US$ 50 per day, per person minimum for 10 days. If you go more than 10 days, then you have to pay additional US$50 per person, per day.

Day to Day Itinerary

Day 01:Upon your arrival in Kathmandu Nature Adventure Trekking & Expedition will greet you at the airport & transfer to Hotel.

Day 02:Half day Sightseeing in Katmandu city with cultural tour guide. Hotel

Day 03:Drive to Pokhara ( 930m.) 6 hrs drive.Hotel

Day 04:Fly to Jomsom 25 minutes (2710m.) and trek to Kagbeni( 2800m.) 3 hrs. Camp

Day 05:Trek to Chele( 3550m.) 6 hrs. Camp

Day 06:Trek to Syangmochen( 3650m.) 6-7 hrs. Camp

Day 07:Trek to Dhakmar(3510m.) 6 hrs.Camp

Day 08:Trek to Tsarang ( 3820m.) visit Lo-Gekar Monastery. 6 hrs.Camp

Day 09:Trek to Lo Manthang(3840m.) Tiji festival

Day 10:Lo Manthang Tiji festival.Camp

Day 11:Lo Manthang Tiji festival.Camp

Day 12:Retract to Ghami ( 3520m.) 6-7 hrs.Camp

Day 13:Trek to Samar ( 3500m.) 6-7 hrs.Camp

Day 14:Trek to Chuksang (2980m.) 4 hrs.Camp

Day 15:Trek to Kagbeni ( 2800m.) 5 hrs. Camp

Day 16:Trek to Jomsom ( 2710m.) 3hrs.Lodge

Day 17:Fly back to Pokhara 25 minutes. Hotel

Day 18:Fly back to Kathmandu 35 minutes(Evening farewell dinner in Nepali cultural{Resturant) Hotel.

Day 19:Extra day in Kathmandu.

Day 20:Trip end. Final departure. Transfer to airport