Over 100,000 tourists visit Mustang in nine months

MYAGDI, Oct 11: A total of 15,698 foreign tourists visited Mustang in the last nine months of this year, according to the Area Conservation Office, the Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP).

As many as 90,081 visitors from the SAARC countries and 15,617 from third countries arrived in Mustang as of October 6 this year. Similarly, 8,397 tourists entered Mustang via the Thorang-La Pass at an altitude of 5,400 meters.

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The Office said 2,896 tourists had entered the district in a month's period until October 2. 

Tourist arrivals have surged at Muktinath temple, Kagbeni, the Korala border transit, Lomanthang, Sinja Jong Cave, Jomsom, Dhumba Lake, Thini, Marpha, and Lete among the major tourism destinations in Mustang at present.

A total of 121,352 foreign tourists had visited the trans-Himalayan district in 2023.