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Some five storeys tall and packed with 2,000-year-old mummies, silk manuscripts and monastic cells, Upper Mustang's 'sky caves' remain one of…
By Laxman Rawal · Aug 25, 2026
Climb the switchback trail above the village of Chhoser in Nepal's Upper Mustang and a cliff face opens up riddled with square black windows — floor after floor of them, running roughly 50 metres straight up a wall of wind-carved mud rock. There is no…
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What this means for you Most of the sky caves are closed to entry or simply too fragile and remote to visit, but Chhoser's Jhong Cave and the nearby Nyphu meditation cave are open on the standard Upper Mustang trekking route and can be visited with a licensed…
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