Highlights of the Monastery Tour and Trek.
- The world's tallest mountain peaks, including Mt. Everest.
- Oldest Monastery / Monks and Tibetan Culture.
- Birthplace of Lord Buddha, Lumbini.
- World Heritage site visits.
- Landscapes, Himalayas, Rivers, Waterfalls.
- People, Cultures, Food, Lifestyle.
The origin of Buddhism goes back 2500 years ago, when Siddhartha Gautama Buddha was born in Kapilavastu in Nepal. Prince Siddhartha became Buddha after meditating, searching the path of truth, and attaining nirvana and later established the Buddhist religion. There are hundreds of old monasteries in Nepal. Padmasambhava made a monastery and his own statue, which you can see in Upper Mustang, which is older than Tibetan monasteries.
Our Monastery Tour Nepal packages will cover everything from the world's tallest mountain, Mt. Everest, to the birthplace of Lord Buddha. Your tour will start from Kathmandu with the expert tour guide, covering places with dozens of temples, stupas, and monasteries. After a 35-minute flight to Lukla, we will start our hike towards the major monastery areas. In Phakding, there is a Rumijung Monastery, which was founded by Khemp Dorje in the 16th century. Every day of walking on the way, we will visit monasteries, local people, their cultures, lifestyles, and landscapes, and obviously mountains because we will be heading toward the Everest Base Camp trekking route. At Monjo, a small village, there is a small monastery as well as a primary school. Namche (3440 m), which is the unofficial capital of the Khumbu region, is where trekkers used to spend 2 nights acclimatizing. We will visit Namche Monastery, a small monastery in the Nyingma tradition.
Tengboche Monastery is the most important monastery in the mountains of the Himalayan Kingdom. Tengboche has its own spectacular and unique location, which is on the main route to the base camp of Mount Everest. Tengboche Monastery was built by Lama Gulu in 1916 and has strong ties with the Rongbuk Monastery in Tibet. This monastery has been damaged and rebuilt twice; it was damaged in 1934 by an earthquake. Again it was burnt in 1989; the monastery lost precious old scriptures, statues, murals, and woodcarvings. From Tengboche, we can see the world's tallest mountains, including Amadablam, Nuptse, Thamserku, Lhotse, Kantega, and many other peaks around. On this monastery tour, it will cover the Pangboche monastery, the monastery in Phortse, the Khumjung monastery, and the biggest monastery in Thame.
After exploring monasteries in the high mountains of Nepal, we will take you to Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha; Namobuddha, nearby Kathmandu; and other major monasteries that are around in the Kathmandu Valley. For further details and complete details of the Monastery Tour in Nepal, contact a Rugged Trails Nepal tour expert.
