Welcome to India! Upon your arrival, a private transfer to Pullman will be arranged. Spend some time to relax and have lunch at the hotel, you will be spending the evening to rest as you have an exciting couple of days coming ahead.

In the morning, a private transfer to the airport will be arranged. Your flight will depart from New Delhi and arrive at Leh before lunch. the Upon arrival at Leh Airport, a private transfer to Grand Dragon will be organised. Spend the rest of your day at leisure, acclimatizing to the high altitude and rarefied air is very essential. Leh is situated at an altitude of 11400 feet and a flight up from the plains means that you have to acclimatize gently without exerting yourself. The 2 1⁄2 days scheduled here is the minimum required time to acclimatize before going to a higher altitude and doing some fair amount of walking. Over the next few days in Leh, you will get an opportunity to meet a representative from the Snow Leopard Conservancy for a briefing on the history of snow leopard conservation in Ladakh. This will help you get some insight into the current threats to snow leopards and the strategies adopted to combat these threats.

subsidiaries routes of the Silk Road.

A route which was connecting the important Central Asian trading posts of Kashgar and Yarkhand with Northern India. The capital Leh was itself a substantial trading town, where silks and brocades, tea, salt, fine wool, and other items were bought and sold. Despite the advent of the globalized age and the presence of an enormous military base, the Leh bazaar – dominated by the enormous old palace – retains a flavor of its old trading roots. There’s a cheerful bustling atmosphere about the place, a surprising range of goods many of which are suitably exotic, and that immediately apparent ethnic mix of people and costumes that you would expect of a trading town perched at 11000 feet at the cusp of High Asia.

In the morning, a private transfer to the airport will be arranged. Your flight will depart from New Delhi and arrive at Leh before lunch. the Upon arrival at Leh Airport, a private transfer to Grand Dragon will be organised. Spend the rest of your day at leisure, acclimatizing to the high altitude and rarefied air is very essential. Leh is situated at an altitude of 11400 feet and a flight up from the plains means that you have to acclimatize gently without exerting yourself. The 2 1⁄2 days scheduled here is the minimum required time to acclimatize before going to a higher altitude and doing some fair amount of walking. Over the next few days in Leh, you will get an opportunity to meet a representative from the Snow Leopard Conservancy for a briefing on the history of snow leopard conservation in Ladakh. This will help you get some insight into the current threats to snow leopards and the strategies adopted to combat these threats.

Today you set out for an extraordinary drive east heading towards Taglang La and the villiges of Gya, Lhato and Meru. It’s a fantastic drive taking you away from the valley of the Indus up a subsidiary valley to an extraordinary area even by Ladakhi standards that marks the line where the Indian mainland collided with and drove under Asian land mass. There is some dramatic scenery here and you have a chance of sighting wildlife including Blue Sheep, Golden Eagles and Bearded Vultures. Rafts of Red-Billied Choughs perform synchronized aerobatics and in the fallow fields you have the chance of seeing the very beautiful Tibetan Partridge and the more common Chukor Partridge.

This will be exciting day as you get to visit Ulley. Post breakfast, check out of the hotel and drive west on the road to Kargil and Srinagar. You pass through the small town of Nimmu – one of the most important areas in Ladakh and where the Zanskar river meets the Indus. After an hours drive from here, you head north on a road marked to Likir – one of Ladakh’s famous Buddhist monasteries. The road ahead of Likir is all a part of the snow leopard country. The landscape here is even bigger, more expansive and open, until you turn off onto a dirt road, winding up in a narrow valley, following a stream called the Ulley Chhu. Smaller valleys intersect and the guides have their heads craned all the time, scanning the hill sides and the skyline for any silhouette. Upon reaching Ulley, check in at the lodge and spend the rest of your day to relax and acclimatize.

This will be exciting day as you get to visit Ulley. Post breakfast, check out of the hotel and drive west on the road to Kargil and Srinagar. You pass through the small town of Nimmu – one of the most important areas in Ladakh and where the Zanskar river meets the Indus. After an hours drive from here, you head north on a road marked to Likir – one of Ladakh’s famous Buddhist monasteries. The road ahead of Likir is all a part of the snow leopard country. The landscape here is even bigger, more expansive and open, until you turn off onto a dirt road, winding up in a narrow valley, following a stream called the Ulley Chhu. Smaller valleys intersect and the guides have their heads craned all the time, scanning the hill sides and the skyline for any silhouette. Upon reaching Ulley, check in at the lodge and spend the rest of your day to relax and acclimatize.

Post breakfast a private transfer to Leh will be organized and check-in at Grand Dragon. Rest of the day will be for resting or last minute exploring the local market of Leh.

Early morning a private transfer to Leh airport will be organized, for your onward flight to New Delhi. On arrival, a private transfer to Pullman will be arranged.

Early morning a private transfer to Delhi airport will be organized, for your onward flight.