Sacred Treks: Mustang Trek & Cultural Adventure
Date: Sep 6, 2013 - Sep 21, 2013
Location:
Nepal
A Journey to Mustang
Join guide Cathy Ann Taylor and Cattara—Adventures with Insight for this hiking and cultural adventure. Discover the fascinating and rugged land of Nepal’s Mustang region while raising money to support the Breast Cancer Fund.
Sacred Treks offers an extraordinary opportunity to build lasting friendships with a small team of trekkers and to honor loved ones who have faced the challenge of breast cancer. As a benefit for being on the trek and meeting the minimum fundraising goal, some great sponsor gear and incentive prizes will be provided.
The itinerary offers scenic panoramas of some of the sacred peaks of the Central Nepal Himalaya, countless opportunities to meet local folk in their picturesque villages and farms, and explorations of ancient temples and monasteries lost in time.
Lying on a high and austerely beautiful plateau behind the snowy Himalayan massifs of Dhaulagiri and Annapurna, Nepal's Mustang region is an enclave of ancient Tibetan culture. The people of Mustang maintain centuries-old traditions and, indeed, this hidden kingdom was completely closed to foreigners until 1991.
A road is in the process of being built from the Tibetan border to Lo Manthang, the 500-year-old walled city and capital of the Kingdom of Mustang, which will undoubtedly have implications for the people of this land. Join Sacred Treks: Mustang and see it before it changes forever. In addition, you'll be helping to raise funds for the Breast Cancer Fund.
How to Register
Interested participants must first sign up with Cattara—Adventures with Insight. Once signed on to the trip, participants can start building their personal fundraising pages on the Breast Cancer Fund website. If you're already signed up, go here.
About Sacred Treks
Founded in 2008, the Sacred Treks program has taken participants to Bhutan, Mont Blanc, Machu Picchu, Everest Base Camp and Ladakh and has raised $438,000. We hope you can join Sacred Treks: Mustang to share in the full experience of traveling to sacred destinations around the globe in honor of those touched by the disease.
More Information
Contact Cathy Ann Taylor at Cattara for more information about the trek and to sign up for the trip: info@cattara.com or (415) 331-9539.
Contact Jessica Smith at the Breast Cancer Fund with questions about fundraising or the organization: jsmith@breastcancerfund.org or (415) 321-2911.
