Nepal desert landscape

Mustang is Nepal’s most otherworldly destination  a high-altitude desert kingdom on the Tibetan border that looks nothing like the rest of the country. Where most of Nepal is green, subtropical, and densely forested, Mustang is arid, wind-carved, and ancient  red and ochre cliffs carved into shapes that seem impossible, 600-year-old walled cities still inhabited, and Buddhist monasteries containing artwork that…