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Tiji Festival Trekking, Upper Mustang, Lomanthang  2022 Tiji Festival of upper Mustang is a unique cultural event started centuries ago while the area was independent kingdom of Lo people.  It's the festival known as chasing away demons or bad spirits from the walled city of Lomanthang.  The festival takes place in the month of April or May every year based on lunar calendar of Tibetan tradition.  You can witness this beautiful festival  along with cultural display of the Mustang People. The trip is combined with exhilarating trek to upper Mustang and Lomanthang the capital of old Mustang Kingdom and the center where the event takes place.  Next year three day's Tiji festival is taking place on 27 to 30 May, 2022.  We already have few people showing interest for the trek starting in Kathmandu on 19 May and ending on 04 June 2022. If your holidays meet these dates and interested to be in the Himalaya on an special occasion, join with excellent loc...

Nepal's Mountain Tourism in Disdain is a Translated Version (from Nepali) of an Opinion Feature Published on 27th September 2021 Issue of Arthik Abhiyan Daily The World Tourism Day, Kathmandu, Nepal Enchanting Himalaya  Covering more than 80 percent of the country with  hills and high mountains; most of the 14 highest mountains in the world above 8000 meters including the highest one Mount Everest, are located in Nepal. Furthermore, the main part of the world's longest mountain range the Himalayas is also here, which makes Nepal one of the most popular destinations in the world for hikers, trekkers and climbers.   It is needless to mention that, hundreds of thousands of visitors come to Nepal to experience these wonders of nature. However, the state has always misjudged the Mountain Tourism which possesses the power of boasting the economy and identity of the country in much greater level.   It is enough to look at the government's budget speech presented every yea...

Shambhu Tamang Photographed in 2017 - Mani Tamang Today, May 29 is the International Mt. Everest Day, declared by Nepal Government back in 2008. Though it's not popular in international level, Nepal commemorates this day with some events. This year such events are not taking place due to lockdown caused by Corona Virus.  Through this blog post, I would like to share the story of rather unknown Nepali climbing hero Shambhu Tamang. While I was in school, I was only good at quiz contest that would take place once a year in a special event the school used to organize.  Most students had no other chance to be part of extra curricular activity mainly because there were too many students to provide such facility with scarcely limited resources the school had. In the nationwide final exam of grade 10 we were 120 students from our class, all learned in a same class room. Teachers would not know most of their students' by names as there were just too many of us. In one occa...

Lobuche East Peak (6119 meters) Climbing Itinerary 2022 March Join this easy to moderate one day climbing trip from advance base camp to summit (6119 meters) with local sherpa guides. We have two confirmed clients for the following itinerary who are taking Lobuche East as training and meeting with their 2022 Mt. Everest climbing trip guides, prior to attempt Everest in following season. Check out the following confirmed dates and Itinerary with beautiful trek to Everest base camp, yet it can be customized in case you make plan to extend or explore other area while joining the climbing.   Photo: 2019 May, Guide : Ang Furi Sherpa  Itinerary -  Day 01, March 91 :   Arrival in Kathmandu (1350 meters)  Day 02, March 02:  Kathmandu meet other members and guides Day 03, Kathmandu to Lukla flight short trek to Phakding or Monjo  Day 04, Trek to Namche Bazaar (3400 meters)  Day 05, Rest for acclimatization at Namche Bazaar  ...

Among the Tibetan or Himalayan Buddhist followers,  one of  Buddhichita Beads with center bead indicating Om  the common ways of keeping up their practice is to possess a set of prayer bead which they use counting and praying during special occasions.  Prayer beads are called Japa Mala in Sanskrit.  Based on places, teachers and practitioners themselves, Japa Mala can be metal, stone, fruits, wood and so forth.   According to Himalayan Buddhist tradition and belief, malas made from fruits of Boddhichitta plant is the best.  And a little known place of Timal (or Temal) in Central Nepal is the only place from where beads of Boddhichitta comes from. Timal is home of native Tamang people who refer Boddhichita Mala as Thenga or Frengba in their own dialect.  Interesting enough is that, why would a religious sect that emerged in Tibet, that now continuously flourish as one of the strongest spiritual belief systems in the world, be ...

contact : threejewelsnepal@gmail.com A tea shop near lake Phoksundo Join this incredibly beautiful, adventurous and less tourist area of west Nepal lower Dolpo .  We, Three Jewels Adventures local guides owned trekking agency have been able to run trekking trips in lower Dolpo and Upper Dolpo in regular basis since last few years.  For coming September – October which are good months or season for trekking here in Dolpo, we have got one interested client looking to join a group of other trekkers to form small team for fun, safe and mutually benefiting trekking here.  Trekking itinerary posted here is combination of Lower Dolpo and Dhorpatan hunting reserve both visited by very few tourists every year.  Lower Dolpo – Dhorpatan trek starts at Juphal airport after 45 minutes' flight from Nepalgunj in a small aircraft.  First part  of the trek goes to famous lake Phoksundo or Phoksumdo then it becomes more adventurous trekking over Numala and Baga...

"...Listen mighty king! This wonderful stupa is one that the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the all times have actually dissolved into and in which they abide….It's like a wish-granting jewel which automatically answers any prayer that is made to it."   Great Buddhist guru Padma Sambhava replying to King Thrisong Dechen of 8 th century in Tibet; quoted from the history of great stupa (Bouddha). Such are the praises found in the Buddhist scriptures about the historic Bouddha Stupa an iconic monument of Nepal, world heritage site declared by UNESCO and a principle pilgrimage site for Buddhist religious devotees from across the world.  In Buddhist countries stupa or chaitya is one of the most common monuments build for spiritual purposes; thus, we find them in everywhere built in different sizes and designs dating back to different periods of the history.  Bouddha Stupa Renovated after the Earthquake of 2015 Bouddha stupa also called Jyarung Khasyor by Tamangs a...