Hundreds of tourists stranded on trekking route in Nepal due to downpours

Hundreds of tourists are stranded on Nepal's Annapurna Ring trekking route, with many being told not to continue due to heavy rainfall and landslides. The local publication The Himalayan Times writes about this.

It is clarified that the rain has not stopped since September 27. So, in the upper part of the mountain village of Manang near Mount Annapurna, snowfalls began, and in the lowlands, flooding occurred. “Hundreds of tourists were blocked along the Annapurna trekking route, movement throughout the area was disrupted,” the material says.

It is reported that those who reached the upper part of Manang cannot return back as the road is washed away by the Marsyandi River. “According to registration data, 226 foreign tourists reached Upper Manang, while 44 managed to descend,” said the head of the Annapurna Conservation Project unit in Dak Bahadur Bhujel village.