‘The world’s poshest mountain hut,’ the dazzling Shinta Mani Mustang, puts you within a day trip of riverside villages, enchanting temples and sacred streams
Every morning at sunrise, a monk named Samting practises his puja on a remote mountain in the Nepali Himalayas. He performs three prostrations, touches his forehead to the altar cloth, then settles himself down cross-legged and starts to chant. One morning at 6am, I joined him.