The walled city monastery and stupa of Lo Manthang in Nepal's isolated, high-altitude Upper Mustang, a former Buddhist kingdom and once a centre for trans-Himalayan commerce.
Lo Manthang (Nepal) (AFP) - In Nepal's isolated, high-altitude desert of Upper Mustang, a new road to China is bringing economic transformation to the former Buddhist kingdom, once a centre for trans-Himalayan commerce.
The remote region is ringed with vast canyons and red mountains that, legends say, are stained with the blood of a demon killed by the founder of Tibetan Buddhism.
