Kagbeni is a historic village in Mustang and the gateway to Upper Mustang. Located at ~2,800 meters altitude in Nepal’s Kali Gandaki valley. You can reach via Kathmandu → Pokhara → Jomsom → Kagbeni. No special permit needed for Kagbeni, but Upper Mustang requires ~$500 permit. Best time to visit: May to October
Complete guide to trekking in Nepal — covering best regions, permits, costs, packing lists, altitude sickness, and safety tips. Everything you need to plan your Everest, Annapurna, Langtang, or Manaslu trek with confidence.
A complete month-by-month guide to visiting Nepal — weather, trekking conditions, crowd levels, major festivals (Holi, Dashain, Tihar, Tiji), and the best regions and tours to book for every season, so you can time your trip perfectly.
Nepal packs more adventure into one country than seems geographically reasonable. In the same week, you could be gasping for breath on a high mountain pass, floating two thousand metres above a lake on a paraglider, and watching a centuries-old festival fill the streets of Kathmandu with colour, music, and incense. This is our full Nepal bucket list — 50 things to do in Nepal, organized by type of adventure, with links to the trips that can actually get you there.
Every June, Nepal's trekking calendar quietly shuts down. The Everest and Annapurna trails turn to mud, leeches come out, and Lukla flights get unreliable. Most guidebooks tell you to wait until autumn. But there's one region in Nepal where monsoon season is actually the smart time to go, and if you're reading this during the summer months, you're sitting right in the middle of its best window of the year. That region is Upper Mustang, and 2026 happens to be the best year yet to visit it, thanks to a major permit reform that landed in March.
