Dunai Phoksundo Lake Trek

After remaining closed for almost 3-4 decades and strictly restricted from 1958 when Tibet was engulfed by china, Dolpo region was partially opened for trekking and tourism in 1989. Lying in the west of the Kali Gandaki River, Dolpo is located inside the Shey Phoksundo National park in the mid-western region of Nepal, right between the land surrounded by Mt. Dhaulagiri and high plateaus of Tibet where the cold Shey Phoksundo Lake lies. Shey Phoksundo Lake is the coldest and the deepest lake in Nepal. Almost dead and lifeless due to the extreme temperature of the water, Shey Phoksundo Lake consists some of the most rare and exotic plant, aquatic animal and blue green algae species. Dunai Phoksundo Lake Trek offers you on unique opportunity to explore one of the most remote places of all by yourself.
Dunai Phoksundo Lake Trek will take us through the ancient villages of Himalayas- settlements with history of hundreds and more years, high passes that remain frozen for almost half of the year, beautiful lakes like Shey Phoksundo Lake and many other small lakes and isolated Buddhist Monasteries at the top of the hills and mountains. Dunai Phoksundo Lake Trek also creates an exceptional opportunity to get up close to some of the most valued and rare plants and animals of the Himalayan region. Some of the most valued and rare animal species that you are likely to come across during the Dunai Phoksundo Lake Trek are Mountain Blue sheep, Mountain Goat, Jackal, Wolf and the legendary Snow Leopard where as the plants you will be able to see and study if you want will be a vast variation of Rhododendron, alpine pines and birch. This is the land where the mysterious creature yeti is said to inhabit.  
This isolated corner of Nepal has stood and lived through different stages of time. For centuries this area has been a point of trading with Tibet. Dunai Phoksundo Lake Trek will take you to the ancient salt route of the Dolpo region and place of the Tibetan origin people who continue to live, cultivate and trade in these harsh land. This trip covers from Dunai, the headquarter of Dolpo district to the Lake of Shey Phoksundo, which happens to be the second largest lake of Nepal along with the title of deepest lake of Nepal.