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Yari village, far north-west, Nepal

Yari is the last village before crossing into Tibet in far-west Nepal. It is on a six-day trail which runs from the airstrip at Simikot to the Tibetan border at Hilsa. At an altitude of 3600m it is sufficiently low to grow crops of barley. As it lies north of the main Himalayan chain there is little rainfall so the fields are irrigated, with water sometimes brought for several kilometres.
The six day trek towards Tibet makes you more fit and helps the body acclimatise to the 4 - 5,000m rarefied heights of the plateau. Every day the sky becomes more intensely blue as you climb through the atmosphere towards the stars. It is a pretty trail.

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