Lower Mustang · 2,670m · best Mar–Nov (rain-shadow)
A whitewashed stone village in the Kali Gandaki valley famous across Nepal for its orchards — apple brandy, cider, dried apples and the best apple pie on the Annapurna Circuit.
Marpha's small monastery watches over the orchards, and the village's prosperity is credited to the harmony of its Thakali clans — whose kitchen shrines and hearth rituals are as carefully kept as their famous recipes.
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🎯 Browse activities in MarphaMarpha apple brandy & cider · Apple pie & dried apples · Thakali dal bhat (this is Thakali homeland)
🍽️ Every guesthouse pours its own apple brandy and bakes its own apple pie — crawl the village and compare. This is also Thakali homeland: the dal bhat is Nepal's best.