Jomsom is a village in the mounts of Nepal. It is the capital of the Mustang District zone of Nepal. The town is a popular staring/ending point for treks along with Kali Gandaki River valley as well as uptoMuktinath on the Jomsom-Muktinath trek. Jomsom is a well-equipped town of Lower Mustang region and often referred to as the Gateway to Upper Mustang.
The name Jomsom originated from Tibetan word “DzongSampa”, which translate to “New Fort”. King Thang Mig Chen of Thini established the fort to monitor the movement of people on the north-south trade route. The fort and the town was built near the trade route. The locals later called the place DzongSampa and gradually people visiting the place started to pronounce as “Jomsom”.
Jomsom is cut off in two halves by Kali Gandaki, the deepest gorge in the world. The town of Jomsom is situated at either bank of the Kali Gandaki river in Mustang. The altitude of Jomsom is 2,760 meters above sea level. Jomsom falls inside the Annapurna Conservation Area. The Jomsom area falls on the rain shadow of Annapurna range, thus remains dry for 6 months in a year.MUSTANG – The once forbidden kingdom of Mustang in Nepal, with some of the last vestiges of traditional Tibetan Buddhist culture on Earth, is slowly revealing its dramatic beauty to intrepid explorers, writes Saransh Sehgal. So secluded is the ancient Himalayan kingdom of Mustang (or the Kingdom of Lo as it is also known) that those taking it on will need to calculate the journey in days rather than distance, and commit to a medieval-style caravan in order to get there. Lying beyond the 8000-metre peaks of the Annapurna and Dhaulagiri in the Himalayas, just inside Nepal’s border with Tibet, the region stretches far into the vast Tibetan plateau and its mystical wilderness, presenting an untrammelled paradise for travellers looking for that elusive ‘last great frontier’.
