3,750 m · expect 2°C at night · rain-shadow — dry, dusty, cold after dark
Hosted by Tsering Palzon
2019 on HimaGo · Mustang Bhotia · Nepali · English · Hindi · replies within 12 hours (satellite phone) · 88%
6 rooms
from 2 guests
Check-in 14:00
check-out 11:00 · self or with host
Rooms from 2 guests
house extras रु2,000/night
2-night minimum
one night is fine
9th-century dwellings in the rain shadow, restored with mud plaster and goat-hair warmth
Samar sits where the Kali Gandaki valley turns moonscape. Six rooms are cut into soft rock that has been lived in since the 10th century; the family who owns them rebuilt the fronts in mud and lime, put in double-glazed timber windows (an outrageous expense, brought by truck from Pokhara), and left the cave walls alone.
Inside a cave in Mustang is stable at 12–14°C all winter, which sounds cold and is not, once the bhukhari stove is going and the felt is down. You come here for silence, for the Tashi Gangmar murals, and for what the rain shadow means: 300 days of sun while everyone else treks in cloud.
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Guest room
Caves 1 and 2 have the windows and the best daylight; caves 4–6 are deeper, darker and sleep better. All beds take two duvets plus felt. Bring a balaclava for the pre-dawn hours.
Sleeps 2 1 bed 1 bath
6 rooms of this type
from रु12,800/ night
Selected rooms sleep 2 · party of 2
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September 2026
१६ भदौ २०८३
October 2026
१५ आश्विन २०८३
13 nights already booked or closed by the house · Closes 15 Nov – 15 Apr when the Luri La snows in; families move to Kathmandu with the livestock.
Weekend uplift
+0% Fri–Sat
Stays of 7+ nights
−5% automatically
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Samar village, on the Luri La approach
Getting there
Within reach
4.86/ 5
58 verified stays
Andrew & JenVancouver, CA
5.02026-06-01२०८३ असार १७
We had flown into Jomsom, got stuck a day for wind, and Tsering drove up with hot drinks to meet us. The caves are warm with the stove, the food is unbelievable for Mustang, and the night sky at 21:00 made one of us cry. His honesty about altitude is the reason to book this instead of a hotel in Kagbeni.
House rules
Check-in & out
Cancellation
40% refundable until 7 days before. Flights cancelled for wind: no charge for your extra night in Jomsom, we cover it.
HimaGo covers your extra night if a strike, landslide or flight cancellation strands you — no claim form.
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