It is a special trip to Lo-Manthang Upper Mustang every year for Tiji Festival. Mustang Tiji festival trek will provide cultural and historical along with scenery experience of the forbidden kingdom Mustang. A trek into the kingdom of mustang is an unforgettable experience. Mustang Tiji festival trek is three day ritual ceremony known as “the chasing the demon” and it is centered on the Tiji myth.
The myth tells of a deity named Dorje Jono who must battle against his demon father to save the Kingdom of Mustang from destruction. The demon father weakens on Mustang by creating a water shortage which in this extremely arid land and the most life-sustaining resource. Dorje Jono eventually beats the demon and banishes him from the land.
Tiji is a celebration and reaffirmation of this myth and throughout the festival the various scenes of the myth will be enacted and it is time to coincide with the end of the dry (spring) season and ushers in the water season.
