Industry & Tourism
Nepal's Rs 2.7-million-a-kilogram caterpillar fungus season just closed in Dolpa, and four collectors didn't come back down.
By Laxman Rawal · Aug 31, 2026
High in Nepal's Karnali region, above 3,500 metres, there's a harvest that pays better than almost anything else a rural family can do, and it isn't a crop. It's a fungus that eats a moth from the inside out, and for six weeks every spring, whole villages in…
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For many families in Dolpa, Mugu and neighbouring districts, this single harvest supplies more than half of their entire year's cash income, more than farming, more than day labour, more than anything else available at that altitude. That is exactly why…
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What this means for you If your Nepal trip runs through Dolpa or the Karnali region, and it does on our Upper Dolpo trek and Lower Dolpo trek , you're walking through the same high pastures this harvest depends on. May and June camps you might otherwise pass…
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