10,000 ancient caves in the mountains are mysterious masterpiece of the ancient people of Nepal.
Mustang, the ancient kingdom located in the Nepal north, is one of the most mysterious archaeological relics all time. In the shelter with full of dusty, sulfur sandstone which are the thousands-years erosion of wind and sand, nestling deeply in the Himalayas, near the Kali Gandaki river is the most strange and majestic cave system that people had seen.
These caves are located on a cliff and some of them isolate with expanded stores. Some others interconnected together into groups through small holes. The surprising thing is that all these caves are as old as thousand years. Number of caves in Mustang also makes all visitors and researchers stagger: 10,000 caves.
Mystery of these caves is that nobody knows exactly those who built this masterpiece in rocky or the reason why they built them. How ancient people made a huge number of shelters in the cliffs and how to climb, which is the mystery that has not also the answer, obscured by time dust class.
700 years ago, when the Mustang was discovered with wild and translucent dust, Nepalese people instantly honored here as a shrine, a Buddhist and art center. People flocked to the foothills area to live by salt trafficking. Mustang became a trade gateway between remote Tibet and the outside world.
By the 17th century, salt was no longer rare as it was, so prosperous business and trade once in Mustang gradually was perish. People left town and left the Mustang today: the deserted ruins of the great man, hidden deep in the rugged mountain.
To get into the relic area Mustang, expedition climbers and scientists must follow a trail along the river Kali Gandaki. Because the terrain here is too dangerous, finding and digging is getting more and more difficult. According to scientists, there are many unexplored caves.