STOK KANGRI TREK ( 8
Nights / 9 Days)
Details Tour Plan
Day
01 : Arrival At Leh
On arrival at Leh airport, you will be met by our
representative at the airport and escort you to Hotel.
Complete day for the acclimatization & rest as Leh is at an
altitude of 3500 Mtrs above sea level. Overnight stay in Leh.
Day 02: Leh - Sham Valley (Magnetic Hill, Sangam,)
After breakfast, drive to Gurudwar Pathar Shahib, Magnetic
Hill, Sangam of Indus & Zanskar River & Hall of Fame. Evening
visit to Shanti Stupa and Leh Palace after back to Hotel and
overnight stay in Hotel.
Day 03: Leh (11500 ft.) to Chang Ma (13087 ft.) via Stok
Village (11800 ft.)
It
is one of the best sites that you would have once you have
decided to trek this area of land. Trekking in Leh, could be
considered by some people to be living their dreams. At any
point of time, you might just feel that you are right in the
middle of heaven. This is a day when you would enjoy a great
drive and have an enjoyable trekking experience. The day
starts with a drive to Stok village. At the start of the drive
from Leh, you would go through many exotic and beautiful
scenes. The drive to the Stok village is an adventurous one
and if full of natural beauty and lush green trees. The
weather is perfectly fine for the summer season. The Stok
village lies immediately to the south of Leh and it is well
known for a royal palace. The recently crowned king of Ladakh
lives here. There is also a small museum inside the palace
which has beautiful and religious artifacts.
The day 3 is however the day when you trek to Chang Ma. This
might be a difficult trek and you may experience the joy of a
snow trek. You would like to spend the night here and the
overnight stay would be in tents in the open lands.
Day 04: Chang Ma (13087 ft.) to Mankorma (14200 ft.)
The whole trek passes through the barren grey landscape of
Ladakh. From chang ma trek up to Mankorma, This day will show
you the real beauty of ladhak and gives you the answer why
ladhak known as cold desert, while trekking you will cross the
2-3 times small streams, it is a fairly easy trek along with
the river and you would love the overnight stay in tents.
Day 05: Mankorma (14200 ft.) to Base camp (16300 ft.)
A
few hours trek takes you back to the base camp. This exotic
base camp is a pleasurable place. It lies in a grassy area.
This area has a number of water bodies in the form of lakes
and water streams. During the day time, you can walk on the
upper areas of the campsite and enjoy the views of the
surroundings. There are some beautiful peaks like Gulap Kangri,
Parcha Kangri and many others. You can also take rest in the
base camp to make sure that the group is ready for the next
day’s trek and touring. You would get time to acclimatize to
the weather. This is pretty necessary because in the coming
days, you wuld find a drastic change in the climate and might
experience thin air and lack of oxygen.
The overnight stay, would again be arranged in tents and make
sure that you have enough warm clothes for the lowering
temperature.
Day 06: Rest day + training day
This day is an easy day for trekkers. You would enjoy the
time for going around and knowing the place to a much better
extent. It is essentially a day to train for the upcoming trek
and know the possibilities and challenges that are involved in
it. Your trek leader and guide would let you know about all
the different changes in the terrain. You need adequate
knowledge and experience to go around the mountains. There
might be situations where you have to trek in the sinking
snow. You would find your legs sinking up to your knees.
Therefore it is essential that you know the weather and
surrounding conditions. It is also a day when you would to
take enough rest so that you are well prepared for the coming
excursion. The overnight stay would again be in tents. By now,
you should be well familiar to the conditions prevailing
during the day and night.
Day 07: Base camp (16300 ft.) to Stok Kangri (20080 ft.)
back to base camp.
Now
that you have had rest for a day i.e. the Stok Kangri trek,
you should be well prepared for the big climb. You should
wakeup early to start the climb. The route goes through
glaciers and then comes to steep slopes to the summit ridge.
This is a long climb, so you should be mentally strong and
prepared psychologically. It would take somewhere between 9 to
10 hours for average climbers. Slow climbers may take another
2 to 3 hours in addition. At the start of the trek, after a
couple of hours, you should reach to the summit of the ridge.
The summit offers you great views of the area. The wide and
open surroundings give you a royal feeling. Towards the north,
you would get a view of the Karakoram range. The Saser Kangri
dominates the sky in the north along with the Karakoram, and
the Zansker ranges in the south. The overnight stay, as usual,
would be in tents.
Day 08: Base camp to Leh
Day 8 would be the ultimate day of your fantastic trekking
experience. The trek which included high altitude trekking
mountaineering and expedition would finally come to an end
after this day. But before you end the day, you would see a
lot of snow clad beauty and memorable view of mountain ranges.
The joy of Ladakh trekking can be rejuvenated from this spot.
As the day rises, you would have to start coming back from
Base camp to Leh. The trek back could be difficult and you
need to perform care and precision. On the same day, after you
reach Leh, you would also have to cover up to Stok Village on
your feet. Stok village is the final stopping point of
trekking. From Stok village to Leh, you would have to take a
drive. The drive may make you nostalgic of all the fun that
you had while trekking the mountains in the last eight days
Day 09 : Drop Leh Airport
Early morning transfer to the airport for taking the
flight back home.
Tour ends
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