Chadar Ice
Trek - 18 nights / 19 days Trek Program
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. |
