This is part of the new generation of Pioneering Grasshopper tours and unlike any other tour we offer.

Our newest exciting cycling adventure, this breathtaking journey will challenge you through the timeless Kingdom of Lo, the last bastion of traditional Tibetan Buddhism. This region was, until recently, forbidden to all foreigners.

This fascinating region requires a special restricted area permit to enter (so numbers are limited), which supports conservation of the area’s unique heritage. This landscape hosts incredible sculpted canyons with ancient cave monasteries, fortified medieval villages offering oases of green fields in the arid landscape of the Tibetan Plateau, wild trails over high passes and along stark ridge-lines – all set against the backdrop of the soaring snow-peaks of the Himalayas.

Lo, in the Upper Mustang region, is an ancient kingdom tucked away in northern Nepal at the headwaters of the ‘deepest river gorge in the world’, the Kali Gandaki. It is a remote and starkly beautiful section of the Tibetan Plateau, the high altitude desert bordered to the south by some of the Himalaya’s highest mountains. The fact that it now lies in Nepal rather than Tibet has enabled the people of the region to preserve their unique and fascinating Tibetan Buddhist culture and lifestyle; which now enables intrepid visitors to learn and experience this ancient way of life.

Our exploration of Upper Mustang takes us on some of the less travelled routes through this sun-drenched region; sometimes following the Kali Gandaki river-bed, other times biking on spectacular trails to passes high above it, and descending on awesome trails through gorges, wondering at the ancient cave dwellings and monasteries we see carved into the rugged mountainsides.

Now is the time to join us on this unforgettable adventure through the intriguing, untouched Mustang, while it still has a sense of the forbidden. These newly opened trails have to be biked to be believed.