Stok Kangri

Stok Kangri

Area: Leh Ladakh
Duration: 13 days
Altitude: 4900 mts/17384 ft
Grade: Moderate to Challenging
Season: July - September end

Day 01 : Received at Delhi International airport. Check in hotel. After lunch sight seeing tour of Delhi

Day 02 :Arrival in Leh ( fly in to Leh ) Rest day for acclimatization. Take it easy today .

Day 03: Sight seeing the most interesting Monastery like Shay palace Thiksey monastery and Stok palace Overnight at Hotel.

Days 04: Preparations for the trekking. Evening explore the Leh market. Overnight at Hotel. We are using this time to get our body used to height and for the trek.

Day 05: Leh- Spituk to Zingchen 3700 m (4-5 hours)
Our walk begins along an old jeep road on very dry and exposed land, so water and protection against the sun are important! After 3 hours the landscape becomes greener as we go into the Zingchen Valley, where the Rumbak River flows into the Indus. Our camp is in the small village of Zingchen, which means 'big field', where there are just two houses. The rest of the day will be spent enjoying the view and maybe even a dip in the river.

Day 06: Zingchen to Rumbak 3900 m (3-4 hours)
Today we enter Hemis National Park, home to the famous Snow Leopard, Blue Sheep, Ladakhi Urial (a type of goat), great Tibetan sheep (Arghali), red fox, Tibetan wolf, wild dog (dhole), Lynx, marmot and mountain hare. We start to climb gradually up to village of Rumbak.

Day 07: Rumbak – Stokla – Camp Site
In the morning after breakfast you will ascend the 4,900-m. Stok Pass also known as the Namlung La. If you are fit and have camped at the plateau just under the pass as all do, you should have no problem climbing up to the pass. One can climb steadily and made it in less than 1.5 hrs.

Day 08: Second Base of stok peaks. Overnight in tent.

Day 09: early morning around 12 am Summit the peaks and come back to base camp site overnight in Tent

Day 10: Camp Site – Stok – Leh
Today is an easy day going downhill all the way. Follow the stream on its left bank as it heads north. The path is broad and easy. You will find willows and wild roses growing on islands in the middle of the stream which grows quite wide as you approach Stok. Visit the Stok Palace, residence of the king of Ladakh.

Day 11: Rest or enjoy shopping,

Day 12: Leh – Delhi – Flight . From Delhi we drive to Agra . Check in hotel. Evening sight seeing of Agra .

Day 13 : In the morning we go for sight seeing of Taj Mahal and then drive back to Delhi International airport for our connecting flight back home