CHADAR
ICE TREK
Duration: 18 nights / 19 days
Day
1: Arrival in Delhi. Transfer to Hotel there.
Day 2:
Morning flight to Leh.
Day 3: Tour of Leh
city, including the sixteenth-century palace and Gompa.
Day 4:Tour
of Shey and Tikse gompas, and Stok Palace.
Day 5: Visit
to Basgo fort and Alchi gompa, a remarkably well preserved 11th -century
gompa and one of the artistic treasures of the Himalaya.
Day
6: Drive to village of Chiling, from where we begin the trek. A
short ways from Chiling we step onto the frozen Zanskar river for the first
time. Trek to Tilat Do. Overnight in cave.
Day
7:Walk upstream on the ice to Bakhula. Overnight in cave.
Day
8: Walk through tremendous canyons, inaccessible in any other
season, to Nyarak. Overnight in cave.
Day 9:
Continue on the frozen river to Sarakdo. Overnight in cave.
Day
10: Walk to Hanuma, the first village and most likely the first
people we have seen since leaving Chiling. Overnight in village house.
Day
11: Hanuma to Pishu, another small village. Overnight in village
house.
Day 12: Pishu to Karsha, site of the largest
monastery in Zanskar. Overnight in village house.
Day
13: Karsha to Padum, the regional capitol of Zanskar and the goal of our
journey. Losar (Tibetan New Year's) celebration.
Day 14: Rest
day to explore Padum and the surrounding valley.
Day 15: Visit
to local villages and gompas, including the kingdom of Zangla.
Day
16: Helicopter over the main Himalaya range to Manali. A spectacular
one-hour ride flying over the main Himalaya range.
Day 17:
Tour of Manali. Stay overnight at Hotel.
Day 18: Flight
from Kullu to Delhi.
Day 19: Depart-Delhi, Transfer to
airport for flight to onwards journey.
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