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Report on Lomanthang

Fifth graders had a virtual trip to
Lomanthang and we were excited for it.

Lomanthang is on the upper side of
Mustang. I found many interesting facts

about Lomanthang such as it’s very cold
up there and hot as well. It has strange

weather there.

People grow and eat potatoes mostly. Lomanthang is a bare dessert filled with
Many gorgeous mountains can be seen nothing. There is only sand and dust in

from Lomanthang. People have Lomanthang but people still find ways

domesticated animals like yaks, chickens, to survive it.
goats etc. Yaks help for transportation.
Sherpa people are the original inhabitants People in Lomanthang make stone walls

of this region and they speak Tibetan to protect their city and they have many

language. There are many ancient stupas. farms. You might think that there are no
schools or shops in the bare desert but

Lomanthang was the walled capital of the there are in the kingdom of Lo. There
Kingdom of Lo. Ame Pal founded the are also many inns and hotels there.

kingdom in 1380 and constructed the city Lomanthang is located in the Gandaki
wall to protect the people from dacoits Province. Lomanthang is an amazing

and other dangers. You can see many of place.
the structures still-standing.

-Ayan Shrestha, VA

Siya Rajbhandari, VB