A cool, sunny morning wake up with the view of Nilgiri North from my bed. After a breakfast of gurun bread, we meander our way through Kagbeni to the check in station that marks the official start to the trek. From this point northward, no one is allowed to go north unless they have a permit or they are an inhabitant of Mustang.
Tibetan prayer wheels and prayer flags. This was outside the monestary in Kagbeni. Good fortune can be dirty as my fellow trekker discovered. :D
Female and male carved statues placed at both entrence of Kagbeni to provide protection from evils. At a later stopover, we were told by a Tibetan that there are ghosts all over Mustang and we should not pee anywhere. Guess the ghosts have DNA trackers. Wonder how Tibetan ghosts feel about snot???
The Kagbeni checkpoint where we have to register and get out permit checked. I did not realize Germans like Upper Mustang. Hope the Germans are not partaking of nude hiking here which is a hit in Germany.
A backward view of Kagbeni from the north as we ascended our first uphill.
Each village that we past futhur on seem to have these three small structures. I was theorizing that the three was representing gateways to heaven, hell and purgatory and one has to decide which is which but it turned out they were just normal prayer shrines. :)
I was trying to get up the slope to get a nice pic but I didn't get far as the loose rocks were coming down as I try to climb up. This was the warm up to the rolling stones act that will happen in the coming days. Pretty much everything geological you see through out Upper Mustang indicates that it was under water once upon a time.
On approach to Chusang, our day stop. The road construction you see is part of the road they are building all the way north to the border with China. Once it is open, The Lost Kingdom will indeed be lost.
The local bus line ;)
At the river level and entrance to Chusang and my first view of cave dwellings.
At our overnight guesthouse. We got there by lunchtime and was pretty hungry. It suppose to have the best momo in Upper Mustang and they were pretty good.
