Upper Dolpo Trek, Photo Essay

Upper Dolpo trek, is a reminiscent expedition to the past itself, hiking across jagged mountainous county. The hike traverses across dry-stone-walled hamlets and centuries old Tibetan monasteries, leaning snowy valleys, sculpted gorges, hallowed mountains, crystal clear highland lakes and sometimes snow covered passes. Upper Dolpo Trek with Explore Dolpo takes you to the piece of…

Dolpo is an amazing piece of heaven on earth, which caters tremendously beautiful landscapes. Landscapes in Dolpo are diverse. The lush vegetation of Shey Phoksundo National Park, which is the home to incredibly beautiful Phoksundo Lake, also houses scores of species of floras and faunas, which include elusive snow leopard to high value crop yarsagumba.…

Dolpa is known for the immense deposit of natural and cultural treasure. The vast biodiversity can be experienced everywhere in the huge geographical expanse. It has been presumed that several precious species of herbs can be available within this vast spread land. Unfortunately, very few species have been in focus till now that is also…

An outstanding valley that nestles isolated in the western mountains, Sinja Valley was once and for a long time a capital city of 12th to 14th century powerful western Malla or Khasa kingdom – as per the archaeological evidences found during the excavations. The Khasa kingdom split into twenty-two hundred petty kingdoms after the 14th…

The isolated destination, where nature is as raw as it was centuries ago and the culture is very close to the nomadic one, Dolpo is truly a distant heaven. Trekking in Dolpo is no doubt an incredible opportunity to witness the untouched beauty of Nepal. We cater many treks to Dolpo and among them Lower…

The human civilization in Nepal seems to have from 8th century as per the scholars who tend to find historical aspects of the region. It was between 6th to 8th centuries that the powerful Yarlung Dynasty from Tibet conquered all the Tibetan speaking territories of the region.  Because of the mission of conquering people living…

Being the region, which is cut off to the rest of the country for almost six months of the year, Dolpo still practices the culture of nomadic trading caravans. The toughest part for the Dolpa-pa, the people of Dolpo is that they have to go through challenging journey across the Himalayas twice a year for…