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Page 7 - Marpha - Jomsom - Kagbeni (Lower Mustang) - (Day 11)
Above - Marpha. Quite different architecture to what we had seen
before. We were now in Lower Mustang
Above - icicles near Marpha
Above - ice patterns
Above - walking towards Jomsom
Above - buying apples in Jomsom. Jomsom is the capital of Mustang. The
orchards near Marpha are some of the best apple growing areas in Nepal.
Above - locals killing a sheep in the main street of Jomsom
Above - Basu in Jomsom and a lot of girls heading to school
Above - willows
Above - we head up the river to Kagbeni
Above - folded strata
Above - near Kagbeni
Above - Kagbeni - brickwork
Above - old stupa at Kagbeni
Above - brickwork
Above - the old fort at Kagbeni
Above - looking into the Forbidden Kingdom of Mustang (Our permit did
not allow us past this point)
Above - prayer wheels
Above prayer flags
Above - fields at Kagbeni
Above - the Nilgiri peaks tower over the river downstream
Above - back at the lodge, I finish dinner with some Mustang Coffee. It
was also good to catch up with and old friend, Ian Armstrong - a
bushwalker from Sydney, who was on the Annapurna Circuit trek. I hadn't
seen him for many years (30?)
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