Pilgrim Numbers Surge at Muktinath Temple as Cold Weather Subsides

Mustang. With the decrease in cold weather, the rush of pilgrims to the Muktinath Temple has increased. The number of tourists visiting Muktinath, which had dropped due to the cold weather during winter, has started to rise with the arrival of Falgun.

Dinesh Bhusal, manager of the Muktinath Development Committee, informed that since the beginning of Falgun, around four to five thousand pilgrims have started visiting Muktinath daily. According to him, while religious tourists and pilgrims visited partially in Poush and Magh, the number of visiting tourists has increased as the cold has slightly lessened.

Manager Bhusal stated that an increase in the arrival of pilgrims and religious tourists to Muktinath is expected as the winter season ends in Mustang and the summer season begins. He mentioned that attention is being paid to the proper management of devotees visiting the temple, cleanliness, food and beverage services, and other aspects since Falgun began.

Manager Bhusal informed that arrangements have been made to line up devotees for easy darshan, provide clean water and food, and keep health workers and a health clinic active with oxygen to protect devotees from altitude sickness. According to him, arrangements have been made for devotees who bathed in the 108 taps and ponds in the cold of Muktinath to warm themselves by fire.

It is a long-held religious belief that visiting the sacred religious site, a center of religious faith for Hindus and Buddhists, frees one from unintentional mistakes.