Lo Mantang
Lo Mantang is the capital of the kingdom of the Mustang (Kingdom of Lo). It is at five days of walk of the border of Nepal. Surrounded by walls, it contains approximately a hundred and twenty houses, three monasteries, a royal palace. There are 1.200 inhabitants. They speak mainly Tibetan and practice the trade with Tibet in north and Nepal in the south.
Mustang has its own history, distinct from Nepal since 1480 when King Ame stake conquered the surrounding castles and joins together the seven districts which constitute Mustang.
Nepal practices a policy of assistance, of schooling but also of assimilation of the country. The king, Jigme Dorje Tandrul, does not have any more real capacities but the insulation of the country still guarantees to the country a cultural autonomy compared to Nepal.
Around Lo Mantang, the turning into a desert calls into question the cultures by irrigation.
Three colors for Lo Mantang: the ocher of sands, the white of the dwellings and the brown one of the religious buildings. The most important masonry in the high part of the city is the palate on five floors, one of the four royal residences. The tradition wants that the city was surrounded by forests. There remain about it nothing and the desertication, which worsens year by year, makes problematic for the future the cultures by irrigation.
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