The Manaslu Circuit Part 2/2 - Mighty Manaslu [Nepal 4K] - Mannapurnaslu Part 2 

The Manaslu Circuit and how we experienced it on our trek in fall 2019: all the details about stages, lodges, trails and more!
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:41 Day 8: Samagaon to Pungyen Gompa and back
05:41 Day 9: Samagaom to Manaslu Base Camp and back
13:06 Day 10: Samagaon to Samdo
15:48 Day 11: Samdo to Dharamasala
19:21 Day 12: Dharamasala to Lharke La and Bhimtang
23:48 Day 13: Bhimtang to Dharapani
26:47 Summary
This video is about trekking the Manaslu Circuit in Nepal and is meant to be a trek report and guide for anyone interested in hiking this beautiful trail across the Larke La pass. It's the second part of a 3 part series about our hike along the Manaslu Circuit and the Annapurna Circuit, which we lovingly called the Mannapurnaslu Trek.
In October 2019 we set off to hike from the tiny village of Soti Khola in the center of Nepal, near the old capital of Ghorka, all the way to the famous sacred temple of Muktinath, located in the Kali Gandaki, the deepest Gorge on earth - right between the mountains of Annapurna and Dhaulagiri, both over 8000 meters high.
We start our trek in subtropical jungle, far below 1000 meters of altitude and hike along the Manaslu Circuit all the way up and over the 5160 meter high Larke pass, descend to Dharapani and continue trekking on the world famouse Annapurna Circuit up to the Manang Valley, the 5416 meter high Thorong La and all the way down into the desert of Lower Mustang and the Kali Gandaki Gorge.
Our schedule has us staying in the large village of Samagaon for three nights to adapt our bodies to the high altitude. On the first of our two rest days there, we climb to Pungyen Gompa, a tiny and lonely monastery on a large alpine meadow in over 4000 meters of altitude, right at the foot of Manaslus gigantic south face. On the second day in Sama, we try to reach Manaslu Base Camp, perched high above the village on Manaslus east side.
After this, we continue to Samdo and the day after to Dharamasala - pretty much the Base Camp to Larke La - and sleep in one of the new metal container built shelters there.
We start climbing up to the pass in basically the middle of the night ans need more than 9 hours to reach Bimthang on the other side.
We then descend through beautiful Jurassic Park like forests to Dharapani to conclude the Manaslu Circuit.
From there we'll continue our trek on the world famous Annapurna Circuit in our next Episode.
Our trek was organized by Prem Rai at Prems Nepal Trek:
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We were lucky enough to have Chandi Rai as our lovely, dependable and knowledgeable guide (and meanwhile friend).
If you got any questions about this trek or trekking in Nepal in general, please post them in the comments section!