Pangong Tso Lake is 134 Kms long and extends from India to Tibet, where 60% of the length of the lake lies in China. The lake is 5 Kms wide at its broadest point. Pangong Tso can be reached in a five-hour drive from Leh, most of it on a rough and dramatic mountain road. The road crosses the villages of Shey and Gya and traverses the Changla Pass, where army sentries and a small teahouse greet visitors. Road down from Changla Pass leads through Tangste and other smaller villages. The spectacular lakeside is open during the tourist season, from May to September.
An Inner Line Permit is required to visit the lake as it lies on the Sino-Indian Line of Actual Control.
The second attraction of this trip is Nubra Valley- its original name was Ldumra (the valley of flowers. The Shyok River meets the Nubra or Siachan River to form a large valley that separates the Ladakh and Karakoram Ranges. Nubra is a high altitude cold desert and villages are irrigated and fertile, producing wheat, barley, peas, mustard and a variety of fruits and nuts, including blood apples, walnuts, apricots and even a few almond trees. In the western or lowest altitude end of Nubra Valley near the Line of Control i.e. the Indo-Pak border, along the Shyok River, the inhabitants are Balti or Gilgit Baltistan, who speak Balti, and are Muslims.
Famous Siachin Glacier lies to the north of the valley. Previously there was much trade passing through the area with western China and Central Asia. Diskit, is home to the dramatically positioned Diskit Monastery and Hundar was the capital of the erstwhile Nubra kingdom in the 17th century, and is home to the Chamba Gompa. Between Hundar and Diskit lie several kilometers of sand dunes, and (two-humped) Bactrian Camel graze in the neighboring "forests" of seabuckthorn. The beautiful village of Baigdandu is also located in this area. There is a marked presence of people with startling blue eyes, auburn hair and rosy cheeks as against the typical mongoloid features of the Ladakhis. Local lore has it that they were a Greek tribe who came in search of Jesus Christ's tomb and eventually settled here. Baigdandu is also known for the goats that give you the famous Pashmina shawls.
With these two wonderful sites, this trip takes one to the spectacular monasteries of Ladakh and the Leh market.
We strongly suggest you to use our email address info@adventureindiagroup.com for sending your queries directly to us. It is less time consuming than using booking forms. You can give missed call at 919736102222 and our office will call you back if you can't send email.
Tour cost per person on twin sharing:
02 persons 02-04 persons 04-06 persons 06-10 persons
26000 INR 23000 INR 20000 INR o 17000 INR
Cost includes
Airport/ railways station transfers
Sightseeing with local guide
Hotel/ Camp rooms on Twin Sharing
Air fares
Inner line Permits wherever required
Tea & Snakes on sightseeing days
Breakfast & Dinner in all hotels & all meals in Camps.
Cost doesnt include
Air fares
Personal Expenses on shopping & other items and Insurances.
Instructions
• Kindly carry your identity proof and 02 passport size photographs along with your other travel documents and if you are visiting restricted areas, send us the same at the time of booking.
• If you have history of Asthma, High Blood Pressure and Cardiac issues, consult your doctor before you leave for high altitude tour. If required, intimate us in advance for oxygen cylinders to be fixed in your car.
• Your clothing, shoes and day sac are few very important aspects making your trip comfortable, so be careful and mail us if you need any help.
• If you wish to extend the trip, you can always write to us. Extensions on same circuit will have pro rata cost.
• Concerning any special food / beverage you are allergic to or you wish to have during your journeys with us, you are suggested to write us in advance.
Our guides are your best caretakers
All of our tours leave with experienced mountain guides who look after your requirements well. As long as these guides are with you, you don’t need to think about anything essential during the journey, this way we make your daily trips completely stress free.
Our cooks- the best in mountains
Especially during your safari journeys or trekking holidays, our cooks offer you the delicious meals with a mixture of Indian, Chinese and Continental menus. For the journeys like religious holidays, you may send us the list of food you wish to include in this menu.
We strongly suggest you to use our email address info@adventureindiagroup.com for sending your queries directly to us. It is less time consuming than using booking forms. You can give missed call at 919736102222 and our office will call you back if you can't send email.
Day 01: Arrive Delhi/ on your arrival you will find our representative at the airport who will take you to the hotel and a half day Delhi sightseeing (Depending on your arrival time) can be offered.
Day 02: Delhi – Leh/ morning transfer to the domestic airport to board a spectacular flight to Leh for one hour. Majority of the flights depart in the morning and give you ample time to relax and acclimatize yourself in Leh. In the afternoon, we take you to explore Leh market that runs from north to south through the heart of the town. Once lined with shops trading in wool, tea, salt, and semi-precious stones, it now has rows of Ladakhi women selling fruits and vegetables. Chatting and smoking, the women add color to this street. Kashmiri shopkeepers sell their goods on the streets, to the northwest of the main road.
Day 03: Leh
After breakfast this morning, drive to Thiksey Monastery. One of the most beautiful monasteries of Ladakh, it belongs to the Gelugpa Order of Buddhism. After this, drive to Shey Palace, located 15 km to the south of Leh on the Leh-Manali highway. The three-storey palace is perched on a hillock overlooking the beautiful Shey village. After lunch, you will leave for sightseeing to Shanti Stupa and Leh Palace.
Day 04: Leh - Pangong Tso - Leh (280 Kms round trip) Morning after breakfast drive to Pangong Lake, which is situated on the Indo China border through Changla Pass 17,350 feet, it is the third highest motorable road in the world. There are lot of rare birds and wild animals in the vicinity. The lake at 14,500 feet is the largest in Asia and probably the most beautiful too.
Day 05: Leh - Khardung La Pass - Nubra Valley – Diskit (140 Kms)
Drive to Nubra Valley - it lies in the north of Leh and is accessible over the Khardung la (5,570 Mts.) one of the highest motorable roads in the world. The valley is on the trade route from Leh to Kharga via Saser and Karakoram passes. You will definitely be overwhelmed to see the Bactrian Camels (Shaggy double hump Camel) around sand dunes, Diskit & Samstanling monasteries. Arrive at Nubra Valley and proceed for a visit to the White Sand Dunes at Hunder. You can enjoy the camel ride and check into deluxe camp for the night.
Day 06: Diskit - Leh Morning visit the Diskit Monastery. The Gompa is one of the highest points near the village belonging to the yellow sect (Gelugpa). Parts of the Gompa, which house 120 resident monks, are about 700 years old. The Dukhang has many statues, one of which holds the head and left arm of Turkish invader believed to be about 5000 years old. Later drive back to Leh and check into your hotel for overnight.
Day 07: Leh – Delhi – Home
Morning transfer to Leh airport for the flight to Delhi. On arrival at Delhi, you will meet our representative to take you either to your hotel if you are staying for overnight or to your next departure point (airport/railway station) to continue your journey.
Essential Information for Safari Tours We strongly suggest you to use our email address info@adventureindiagroup.com for sending your queries directly to us. It is less time consuming than using booking forms. You can give missed call at 919736102222 and our office will call you back if you can't send email.
Getting there: Your nearest international airport is Delhi where you will meet with our safari manage who will escort you towards the initial point of your adventure as per the program details with the first night in Delhi hotel. For Sikkim and Bhutan Holidays, the airport of Kolkata is also used to arrive India.
Air tickets: We have our partners in almost every foreign countries, so if you need any assistance in your air tickets bookings, you are always welcome to speak to us to know about our partner close to you.
Ground transportation: We provide the ground transportation comprising of best available cars/ coaches during the safaris. The high altitude safaris get 4WD cars of Toyota and Mahindra. For the wild life tours, we offer you open jeeps/ covered jeeps and canters.
Insurance: It is a condition of joining our trips that you must be adequately insured. All persons are expected to arrange their own insurance. Polices should cover any potential risks involved in such adventure.
Our hotels and camps: We offer you best economy hotels in cities and towns very comfortable tents with maximum possible facilities in the mountains and deserts during the safaris. We provide the most luxurious camps fitted with dining areas and modern toilet facilities.
Adventure India briefing: We have excellent maps, images and movies of majority of our adventure expeditions/ journeys and sports. A short briefing in our offices is highly recommended for the high altitude and tough journeys, so the team understands logistics, forecast problems and know where the solutions would be. We stress on planning, planning and planning in any adventure expedition and till now we have remained successful in all of our expeditions just because of our planning. So we need you to be an active part of it.
Refreshments & Food: We offer a mixture of Vegetarian and Non vegetarian food during the safaris including several herbs we have individually discovered with the medicinal values. We have cooks who make Korean, Japanese and Continental food along with Indian food. We provide enough refreshments during the safaris including a hot bowl of soup at 5325 meters of worlds’ second highest motorable mountain top.
Our guides & escorts: Our guides and escorts have year’s long experience with them of adventure journeys. We use local guides in even small places of Spiti and Zanskar to boost them, encourage them and train them so they find tourism helpful in supporting economically. Secondly, we wish our clients to have the experience of extreme local life through them, every guide has his own style.
Ground Support system: We are well equipped with ground support system in case of any need, natural calamities and disaster. A wonderful local support team in entire mountains has been developed.
Restricted area/ inner line/ wildlife zone permission: we obtain inner line permits for you to enter in restricted areas and border areas as per the government rules. You need to send your passport, visa and passport size photograph for the same. The permissions to enter in national parks and sanctuaries for wildlife safaris are necessary to confirm well in advance but at few parks, the visitors (you) are required to present and permissions are obtained on arrival.
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