Specials 2008:

Upper Mustang/Nepal

Trekking along the Saltroute in the Kingdom of Lo

7th. April - 30th. April 2008

1. Day Bustrip Kathmandu - Pokhara, over night at the lake-side Hotel
2. Day Flight Pokhara - Jomsom, Start of the Trek with horse to Kagbeni
3. Day Jomsom (one day rest, because of the change of the climate)
4. Day Jomsom - Kagbeni - Tzug (Gompa)
Gomba Kang
5. Day Gomba Kang – Chele - Samar
6. Day Samar – Rangchung Choerten Cave - Syangboche
7. Day Syangboche – Geling- Ghami
8. Day Ghami - Tsarang
9. Day Ghami – Tsarang (former capital of Lo, old King's palace)
10. Day Tsarang – Surkhang – Lori Gompa – Dhi Gaon
11. Day Dhi Gaon - Lomathang (present capital of Lo, Kings's palace, holy places
12. Day Lomathang (one day rest)
13. Day Lomathang - Gar Gompa (1. Monastery founded by Guru Rinpoche in 747)
14. Day Gar Gompa (Meditationcamp)
15. Day Gar Gompa (Meditationcamp)
16. Day Gar Gompa – Dhakmar - Jhaite
17. Day Jhaite – Syangboche - Samar
18. Day Samar – Chhusang (after lunch Tetang)
19. Day Chhusang – Muktinath
20. Day Muktinath (several holy places)
21. Day Muktinath – Jomsom
22. Day Flight Jomsom – Pokhara, then Pokhara - Kathmandu

The costs include:

• Transfer from KTM-Airport to the Hotel and back
• 3 Flights (Pokhara - Jomsom, Jomsom - Pokhara, Pokhara - Kathmandu )
• Transfer from the Hotel to the airport and back
• Accommodation in Kathmandu for four nights, 3-Star Hotel with breakfast
• Accommodation in Pokhara, 3-Star Hotel with dinner and breakfast
• Bustrip Kathmandu-Pokhara with lunch
• Conservationfee for Pokhara
• Special Permit for Upper Mustang (16 days)
• Mountainguide
• Cook
• Kitchenstuff
• Porter
• Rent for a horse
• Horseman
• Muli
• Muliguide
• Tent or Lodge during the trek
• Food and beverages (breakfast, lunch and dinner and tea, coffee, hot choclate, hot water during the trek)
• Satellite-Telephone for emergency

Price: 3990,- US-Dollar for each person

In the costs is not included:

• Visafee for Nepal
• International Flight to Kathmandu
• Drinks like Coca-Cola, Fanta, Beer, Vine and Mineralwater
• Tips

Guide: Anna Elisabeth Bach
Organisation: Lhakpa Gyalje Sherpa

Lhakpa and me, we travelled in 2003 and in May 2005 with buddhist friends in Upper Mustang and know very well the conditions over there.
It's necessary that you arrive the two days before the start of the Pilgrimage in Kathmandu.
The enrolement should be done til the 01st. August 2006. It would be better to do it earlier, then you can get a cheaper bookingclass for the international flight.
Please take some lessons in horse-riding, then you can enjoy more the trek.
If you have more questions, don't hesitate to call me under +492695931048 or +4916097331272.

With the best wishes

Anna

Informations for the Trek:

• Foreign-Healthinsurance with “take-back option”

Important items:

• sunglasses, sunhat, suncreme, lipprotection
• Wind- and Weathercreme from Weleda
• Good sleepingbag (for 4000m altitude)
• Fleece-Inlay for the sleepingbag
• Trekking-Bootsl und light slippers
• Hikingsticks
• Gore-tex Jacket, Gore-tex Trousers, Fleecejacket
• Sweatshirt, T-Shirts, socks und underwear (Material which can dry quick)
• Buff, muffler and gloves
• Light Thermosbottle and Sigg-Trinkbottle
• Waterdesinfectiontablets
• Aspirin-Tablets
• Wobenzym-Tablets, 200 pieces
• Traumeel-Oinment
• General-Antibiotic-Medicine (what can kill everything)
• Magnesium
• Basica-Powder (Minerals)
• Small Bandagebag with desinfection, sticking-plaster and so on
• Personal sweeties like chewing-gum and so on
• Good-Second-Hand Cloth for the stuff and the mountainpeople (red and brown colours for monks and nuns, we visit buddhist monasteries)
  

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Mount Kailash,
tib. Gang Rinpoche, Precious Snowmountain
The Mandala of the Buddha of Highest Bliss,
tib. Khorlo Demchog
Pilgrimage

30th. August - 13th. September 2008

Schedule

1. Day: Kathmandu - Zangmu (nepal./chinese border) - Nyalam
2. Day: Nyalam - Visit Holy Milarepa Place - Visit Men Tse Khang
3. Day: Nyalam - Saga
4. Day: Saga - Paryang
5. Day: Paryang - Lake Manasarova
6. Day: Lake Manasarova - Darchen (1. Point of Kailash-Khora)
7. Day: Darchen - Drira Gompa/Phug
8. Day: Drira-Gompa - Dölma La (5660m) - Dragthog ma
9. Day: Drathog ma - Zutrül Gompa/A Phug - Darchen
10. Day: Rest
11. Day: Darchen - Thirta Puri Holy Guru Rinpoche Place with hot springs -Lake Rakastal - Lake Manasarova
12. Day: Lake Manasarova - Paryang
13. Day: Paryang - Saga
14. Day: Saga - Nyalam
13. Day: Nyalam - Zangmu - Kathmandu

Price for each person: 1150,- Euro for a group of 30 persons



Details:

• Drive with the bus from Diamond Way Buddhist Center Swayambhu
  in KTM to the nepal./chinese border
• Overnight in a guesthouse in Nyalam
• During the trip we sleep in our tents (two friends in one tent)
• Full board (breakfast, lunch and dinner, hot drinks, like chocolate, tea, horlicks, bornvita, hot water)
• Tibet Guide (english, chinese and tibetan language)
• Two Mountainguides, Cook, Kitchenboys, Sherpa-Stuff
• For the Khora: Yak and Yakman
• 4-Wheel Toyota Landcruiser
• Trucks for our food, tents, luggage and so on
• Tibet-Permit and Mount-Kailash-Permit
• Camelbag
• Oxygen
• Tibetan Herbs, Rinchen Rilbu
• High Altitude Medicine

Stuff-Leader: Lhakpa Gyalje Sherpa
Groupleader: Anna Elisabeth Bach

Not included:

• Visa-Fee for Nepal, 60 $ at Kathmandu-Airport, Double Entry!!
• Visa-Fee for Tibet, 50 $
  
  

Please you bring the following items:

• tent, sleeping bag and iso-mattress
• trekking jacket and trousers
• trekkingshoes
• raincoat
• fleecejacket or Fleeceshirt
• warm underwear
• hat, gloves and shwal
• 2 Buff
• treckingsticks
• sun glasses, sun cream
• sigg-Waterbottle, thermosbottle
• painkiller (like Aspirin)
• antibiotic-Medicine
• diarrhoe-Medicine