Spiti Valley Expedition | Manali – Kaza – Chandartal

Check into Rooms

Relax and have Lunch will be served in the Hotel. Post lunch

There will be a group briefing about the expedition  by the Expedition Captain .

• You shall explore Mall road, Hidimba Temple, Old Manali for some good cafes to chill or Vashisht temple for the Hot water Spring. Or a hike to mighty spectacular jogini falls.
• Evening expedition leader will be briefing about the expedition, sleep overnight.

Rohtang pass :- 13051ft , kunzum :- 15059 ft , Kaza :-11980 ft

• Check out from the hotel and leave early morning by 0600 hrs. One of the most important days of the trip, the long journey of around 9 hours will take you through the most treacherous roads. The road trip will be full of adventures and scenic beauty of Spiti Valley will leave you speechless.
• We will stop at different places in between and enjoy the experience of being in between the glaciers and cold desert.
• On our way we will cross Rohtang pass and kunzum pass (one of the highest motor able passes in the world). It is in itself an experience to drive through one of the most breath taking views that these roads offer. Visit the Kunzum temple, try sticking a coin to the magical stone at the famous stone. If your coin sticks to the stone it is considered as a blessing by goddess Kunzum.
• On the way, we Key Monastery. It is believed to be centuries old monastery and one of the most important in Buddhism. Established in 11 century, it has ancient Buddhist scrolls and thangka paintings. It also houses over 350 Buddhist monks and nuns.  Key is built in a mannner of fortress and offers great view from the top. It also host some of the amazing and ancient manuscripts and Thangka paintings.
• From key we move to kibber and chichum.  Previously chichum was hosting valley crossing rope bridgey with manual cart, which was Asia’s highest. Now there is a new bridge  offering amazing deep gorges views and an instgrammable place now a days .
• We reach Kaza by 2000 hrs. The long journey will be tiring, sleep under the stars and see Kaza in its ultimate visuals at night. Kaza will be totally different the next morning when you wake up.

Dhankar :- 12,774 ft , Tabo  :- 10,010 ft

Post breakfast we leave for Tabo. Drive along the Spiti River. After Tabo we explore Dhangkar – one of the oldest monasteries ever constructed inside the mountains. Tabo and Dhangkar are more than 1000 year old monasteries where monks still practice meditation.

Dhankar and tabo shows us the glimps of the most ancient civilisation set up of spiti valley .

We head back to Kaza to our hotel to enjoy the last night in Kaza. 

Its an long important day of our expedition .We try to make it little early today . We have our breakfast and load our bags. We start our perilous journey to chandertal the moon lake .

• You may call it crescendo or cherry on cake  or one last stop to witness another Spitian wonder – Chandra Taal Lake.
• The mystical and beautiful Chandra Taal Lake or the Moon Lake is located at a height of 14,000 feet.

At Chandartal we camp out at the world’s highest lakes. For Chander Tal Lake  we need to take a 3km long trek to see the crystal clear water. Here you can witness the first water formed from the glaciers and learn how the rivers are formed. It is a source of Chandrabhaga River. We do an overnight stay at base camp.

You can see a galaxy from here from naked eyes . Its a pure bliss to be at this place .

To see the beauty of Chandratal, we canagain trek early morning to watch the sunrise. Have breakfast at basecamp once you return back to the base camp. We are now in our last leg of our trip. We leave from Chandartal to Chattru weher we have our lunch. After crossing Gramphu and Rohtang we reach back to Manali by afternoon.

Board the Volvo to Delhi and reach by next morning with lots of amazing memories to remember for a lifetime!

Reach Delhi.