Are you thinking about some off the beaten path trekking in Nepal? If yes, then Manaslu should be your best bet. Mansalu trekking is truly popular for its incredible splendor with the ideal mixture of culture and nature as Manaslu trek guides you to the center of Nubri Himalayan Region and merge finally with certain section of Annapurna Circuit at Dharapani from where one can retrace back to Kathmandu terminating the Manaslu Circuit Trek or continue toward Annapurna Circuit or Tilicho Lake. Below listed are a few facts that make trekking Manaslu more fascinating:
1 – Mt Manaslu is eighth highest mountain across the globe, which was closed until 1992 and still nowadays it is under controlled tourism policy under restricted region on Nepal for trekking. There are two summit of Manaslu nearby along with other surrounding ridges peak of Ngadi Chuli, Himalchuli and Bouddha Himal.
2 – Mount Manaslu, which is located on Gorkha District of Nepal has lot more to offer as renowned temple of Manakamana, Lower Manaslu Trek, Tsum Valley Trek, Nubri Trek with famous palace of King Prithivi Narayan Shah. Not only this Manaslu Trek start from Arughat Gorkha and end at Dharapani, Beshi Sahar that is starting point of Thorong La Pass Trek.
3 – Manaslu Region encounter with countable visitor in compare to other famous trekking trail like Annapurna Base Camp Trek, Ghorepani Poon Hill trek, Everest Base Camp Trekking, and Upper Mustang Trekking which makes entire Manaslu Trek area unspoiled and more exclusive. Still Tsum is untouched by modernization, as people are more remote so are the housing and available facility in entire Tsum area where Gumba Lundang is the most remote and most to explore monastery.
4 – Trekking to Manaslu might be considered as a test of personal endurance as one will encounter with high alpine terrain, not cozy accommodation in higher area, long walk on flat terrain on higher elevated Larke Pass, technical downhill slope right after pass, long side trip to Tibetan border from Samdo, dangerous base camp trail to Manaslu Base Camp from Sama Gaon with uncalculated risk of avalanche.
5 – Himalayan people had declared mountain region from Manaslu to Upper Dolpo as a Nubri State where people looks almost same, so is their culture which directly resemble with people from Tibet. Not only culture their language is same who worship ” His Holiness Dalai Lama” as a god and had his poster on their worship section on any corner of house where they offer butter lamp and stuffs to their god.
Martin Wynn
