Taplejung

Home of Kanchenjunga, the world's third-highest peak, and of Pathibhara Devi, the great Limbu pilgrimage hilltop.

Places in Taplejung

The world's third-highest mountain, on the Nepal–Sikkim border, sacred to the Limbu people as Sewalungma.

A remote circuit to Pangpema and Oktang through Ghunsa's Sherpa village and some of Nepal's wildest valleys.

A hilltop shrine at 3,794 m above Phungling, one of the most visited pilgrimages in eastern Nepal, with a sweep of Kanchenjunga views.

A sacred high-altitude lake near the Sikkim border, walked to by Limbu pilgrims for the Janai Purnima full moon.

An old trading village near the Tibetan border, with a 17th-century monastery and stone houses of the Walung people.