{"id":1905,"date":"2017-08-25T14:15:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T14:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jjamwal.in\/yayavar\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2018-05-23T16:43:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T16:43:44","slug":"kinnaur-lahaul-spiti-trip-2017-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jjamwal.in\/yayavar\/kinnaur-lahaul-spiti-trip-2017-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Kinnaur Lahaul Spiti Trip 2017: Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"
This series of posts is a travelogue of my recent vacation covering Kinnaur, Spiti, Lahaul and Manali in 16 days. It was a solo trip for most part and involved travel on road, camping, trekking and just lazing around on different days. My previous trip to this region was in 2015 in which I planned to visit Samudri Tapu glacier among other places but had to drop the Samudri Tapu part after people with me backed out and the water bodies swelled up overnight with unexpected precipitation.<\/div>\n
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There was some snowfall and rain this time too, but I was a bit lucky to finally complete the Chandra Taal to Suraj Taal trek which was the main purpose of this trip. I had to do the trek with a Gaddi shepherd instead of a proper guide, but it worked out quite well in the end. Rest of the stuff was not planned at all and just happened without any plan. It was quite an enjoyable vacation. I saw a lot of very interesting and beautiful places, met some great people and some stupid ones too.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Following is the general itinerary. I will be writing all of this in detail in a series of posts later<\/div>\n
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\u00a0General Travel Itinerary<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Day 1:<\/strong> Evening bus to Shimla from New Delhi. Meet up with driver and evening stop at Sarahan with rest stops for breakfast, tea. Visited ancient Bhima Kaali temple and walked around the town.<\/div>\n
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Day 2:<\/strong> Drive to Chitkul via Sangla and Rakcham. Walked around the village and beyond. Discovered a pretty mountain stream and that famous last Indian dhaba by accident. Hiked 3 km to ITBP check post. Civilians not allowed past that point.<\/div>\n
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Day 3<\/strong>: Next day stop at Kalpa with rest stop at forgettable Reckong Peo. Walked around fruit orchards, saw that “suicide point”. Spent some time a that “Last Village”<\/div>\n
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Day 4<\/strong>: Next night stay at a small guest house just before Nako. It overlooked Leo village which we visited earlier. We also made a stop at the last village in Ropa valley. Interesting yet quiet place.<\/div>\n
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Day 5:<\/strong> Night stay in Kibber. Spend 3-4 hours hiking and exploring places near Gete village.<\/div>\n
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Day 6:<\/strong> Visited Tashi Gong and “roads” nearby on car. Passed Chicham’s brand new bridge to reach Chandra Taal.<\/div>\n
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Day 7 to 9:<\/strong> Stayed at camp site, hiked and explored some new places and revisited some old ones.<\/div>\n
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Day 10 to 12:<\/strong> Trekked to Suraj Taal with a Gaddi shepherd as my guide. My first proper solo camping under the stars.<\/div>\n
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Day 13:<\/strong> Took a lift in truck from Sruaj Taal to Keylong and a bus from there to Manali.<\/div>\n
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Day 14 to 17:<\/strong> Lazing around in Manali.<\/div>\n
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A small village Gete<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Rough Route on Google Maps:<\/strong><\/h3>\n