Blogs from Muktinath, Nepal, Asia

Nepal Tour - Nov-2023 Day-5: Muktinath The most difficult destination of the tour: difficult and prestigious for the tour company (Kesari), difficult and tricky for the accompanying manager/guides and difficult and adventurous for the group members. Muktinath is situated in Mustang valley about 25 Km (1 hr) from Jomsom (2743 m – 9000 ft). From Jomsom, large vehicles can go up to Ranipauwa village (~11,800 ft) from where the temple is about a kilometre of walk on kutcha road with gradient, followed by about 350 steps – total climbing of about 500 feet. Small vehicles can go up to the base of the steps. The temple is at an elevation of 3762 m (12,343 ft). For comparison, Leh is 3524 m (11,560 ft) and Kedarnath is 3583 m (11,755 ft). So, Muktinath temple is like climbing ... read more

Today was the last trekking leg of our journey. Due to the rescheduling as mentionned in my earlier blogs , we didn't have time to complete the whole of the Annapurna circuit so our plan was to trek to Jomson, then drive to Beni from there we would make our way back to Pokhara, spend a day or so there and then fly back to Kathmandu. We rose and had breakfast in Muktinath with a overly friendly cat and then hit the road, initially just as far as the local Gompa. This had several different types of buddha in the form of golden statues. This place had the feel of a real living, breathing gompa and as we left we found many buddhist locals circumnavigating spinning the hundreds of prayer wheels outside. The views from such ... read more

November 7, 2008 Friday Muktinath Day 18 It’s 1:05 p.m. We’re sitting in the street level dining room at Hotel Nightingale in Muktinath. The group of Europeans we met in Kagbeni just arrived by horse back! The walk was a little harder today (more uphill) but much more interesting. We walked east from Kagbeni along the Thong Khola (Thong River) through Klingar (very small) and Jharkot (a little larger) where we stopped for a tea break. We went uphill, then flat and then more uphill to Muktinath. It took us about 4 ½ hours to get here including tea break. We are having lunch now (Spring rolls and momos), then we’ll shower and / or wash and go to the Temple. Bruce is a little tired and a little light headed, but feeling better now that ... read more