Dolpo Region in Nepal
Dolpo area is located between the Tibetan plateau and the Dhaulagiri range. This is the land is a combination of ancient Tibetan religions and an enduring people who make their existing through farming and through business with both Tibet and Nepal. The area was toured in 1973 by Peter Matthiessen associated George Schaller, during his research of the rare Himalayan blue sheep and the even snow leopard. Our Upper Dolpo trek is a reminiscent journey back in time to a rocky mountainous region of dry stone-walled settlements and Tibetan gompas, winding alpine valleys, carved gorges, blessed mountains and high, sometimes snow-white, passes. Our route is also the most wide-ranging Upper Dolpo journey, taking in the whole high country and of course well-known Phoksundo and the daring trekking exit to Jomsom Fallowing centuries old pilgrimage and trading paths through fabulous, dreamlike landscapes, meeting herders living in yak wool shelters and caravans of dealers replenishing supplies from Tibet by yaks and horses, sometimes staying in peaceable wilderness camps, consecutively in villages unharmed by modernity blending naturally with the Trans-Himalaya.
Dolpo Region is an astonishingly isolated enigmatic area, still a clamp of the pre-Buddhist Bon-po religion as well as Tibetan Buddhism unblemished by the Chinese assault over the border, and the realm of the legendary ghost of the mountains, the elusive snow leopard. Dolpo trekking is unlocked to trekking in 1989, the Dolpo region is hard to match for its primeval beauty and rugged appeal, where one can still have chance to meet the itinerant people and their life style almost untouched and unexplored.
The Himalayas offer an endless diversity of landscapes, cultures and great people. This limitless diversity makes it a destination you can visit over and over again. It even becomes more fascinating and mesmerizing with every time you return. Lying in the rain shadow zone of the Himalayas, the landscape looks like that of the Tibetan Plateau in its place of the lush, green & monsoon watered hills elsewhere in Nepal.
