Duration
if Tour
|
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14 Days.
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| Duration of Trek |
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08 Days. |
| Best Time |
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June to September. |
| Highest Point |
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Kongmaru La (5,100m). |
| Focus |
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Monasteries, Monks, People Villages. |
| Highlight |
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Markha Valley Trek, Monasteries and Landscape. |
| Physical Challenge |
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Moderate overall. |
Day 01 Delhi Arr.
Met at the airport and transferred to the hotel.
Rest of the time at leisure. Overnight Hotel.
Day 02 Delhi Dep.
Transferred to airport to Connect morning flight
to Leh. Leh Arr. Met at the airport and transferred
to the hotel. Check in hotel. Noon at leisure.
Overnight Hotel.
Day 03 Leh to Alchi (62kms.)
After Breakfast drive to Alchi enroute visit Basgo
Palace and Liker monastery. Arrive Alchi by afternoon,
Check in to Uley Ethnic Resort. Visit Alchi monastery
and spend rest of the day exploring the Alchi
village. Overnight at hotel.
Day 04 0800 hrs.
Drive to Lamayuru and then back to Leh. Reach
Leh by evening. Overnight in the hotel.
Day 05 Leh/Spituk/Zingchen
5 hours.
Dep. After the breakfast drive to Spituk Bridge
behind the Spituk monastery, around 7 kms from
Leh town. Arrive Spituk Bridge at Indus River
and start your trek through flat and desolate
plane at the foot of the Stok Mountain. Gradually,
you will leave the view of busy Leh-Srinagar highway
and move towards wilderness of Himalaya. Arrive
Zingchen through a gorge, which gives you a feeling
of complete isolation. Overnight in Camp at Zingchen.
Day 06 Zingchen to Yurutse
4-5 hours
Leave Zingchen for Rumbak through a straight forward
road; leaving village, you enter Hemis national
park for the preservation of Snow leopard, Baharal
and the marmot and wolf etc. Walk through a narrow
trail and valley widens as you arrive Rumbak and
camp at Yurutse below Gandala Pass. Overnight
in Camp.
Day 07 Yurutse to Skyu
6-7 hours
From Yurutse follow path along the mountain side,
then cross a small valley and follow zig zag steep
path. There after cross Ganda La pass
(4380m). Then long descent towards Shingo. After
2 hrs of descent arrive in the valley of
Markha and after few hundred meters you reach
Skyu. Overnight in tents.
Day 08 Sku to Markha
7-8 hours
From Skiu, follow a good path on the right bank
of Markha where one can find great vegetation.
Then cross right bank of river and cross
through barren plain and arrive at Chaluk. Thereafter
walk along the left bank of river and after another
crossing climb towards Markha village. Good camp
site beyond the Village and near river. Overnight
in tents.
Day 09 Markha to Thachungtse
5-6 hours
Morning after breakfast start trekking to reach
Tchatchutse via Hankar village. Overnight in tents.
Day 10 Thachungtse to
Nimaling 4-5 hours
After breakfast start trekking to reach Nimaling.
Nimaling (4900 M) has a sweeping pasture where
thousands of sheep, goats, yaks and graze during
the summer months, rising to the south is 6400
M high Kang Yatse (Nimaling Peak), a lovely mountain,
but not an easy one to climb, Overnight in tents.
Day 11 Nimaling to Shang
Sumdo- 6-7 hours
After breakfast start trekking to reach Kongmaru
La (5100 M). The trek to Kongmaru la passes through
narrow Gorges. At the top of the pass, you can
have view of the Ladakh range and the villages
of the Indus valley to the north is excellent.
Cross the
pass and proceed to Shang. Overnight in tents.
Day 12 Shang Sumdo to
Hemis to Leh -6 hours
Trek Walk along the stream down to Hemis monastery,
which is one of the oldest and richest monasteries
in Ladakh. Visit Hemis monastery and drive to
Leh enroute visit Thiksey, Shey and Stok Museum
Palace. Evening at your leisure. Overnight in
the hotel.
Day 13 Leh to Delhi
Leh Dep. Transferred to the airport to connect
flight for Delhi. Delhi Arr. Met at the airport
and transferred to the hotel. Rest of the time
at leisure. Overnight Hotel
Day 14 Delhi Sight seeing
& Transfer to airport 1000 Hrs.
Full day sight seeing of Delhi including a visit
to Red fort, Jama Masjid Mosque, Raj Ghat, Jantar
Mantar, Qutab Minar and Lotus Temple. Dep. Transferred
to airport to connect homeward flight. |