Leh Ladakh · starts in Leh
Kargil to Leh Scenic Escape Through Ladakh’s High Mountains
- Kargil 1N
- Leh 1N
Where you stay
Kargil
1 night
Hotel Kargil Heights ★★★ · Deluxe room
Leh
1 night
Gangzing Villina ★★★ · Deluxe room
2 nights in 2 cities, 2 rooms with 1 extra bed. Similar hotels may be used if one is full.
What's included
- Hotel
- Pickup and drop
- Sightseeing
- Meals
Trip details
- Duration
- 2 nights, 3 days
- Starts from
- Leh
- Transport
- Xylo/Scorpio, Non A/C
- Hotels
- As listed in the stay plan
Day by day
Day 1 · Kargil
Srinagar - Kargil
After breakfast drive to Kargil, enroute stops include Sonamarg and Baltal hamlets, famous for rugged snow peaked meadows. Past Baltal cross over Zoji-La Pass (11,500 ft). We are in Drass valley with strikingly different landscape dotted with remote mud huts giving an impression that you really have traveled back in time. After a passport check (not for Indian Citizen) we continue on to Kargil . Dinner and overnight at Hotel. ZOJILA PASS: Zojila is one of the high motorable pass at an altitude of 3505 meters. Zojila is on Leh-Srinagar highway, 127 Kms from Srinagar and 307 Kms from Leh built by Indian Army. Zojila pass closes during the winter due to heavy snowfall and cleared every summer for passage of Army and civil vehicles. DRASS: It is the first major village on the route Kashmir to Kargil, inhabited by a population of mixed Kashmiri and Dard origins, has the local reputation of being the second coldest permanently inhabited spot in the world. But in summer when the pass is open and the tourist are going through, the standing crops and clumps of willow give it a gentle, smiling look. The Kargil War Memorial (Sunday Close), also known as Dras War Memorial, is a war memorial built by the Indian Army in the town of Dras, commemorating the 1999 Kargil War between India and Pakistan. The memorial is located on the Srinagar-Leh National Highway 1D, about 5 km from the city centre across the Tiger Hill.
Night in Kargil · Hotel Kargil Heights ★★★
Includes: Dinner
Day 2 · Leh
Kargil - Leh
Today after an early breakfast, check-out and drive to Leh. En-route visiting Mulbekh, Lamayuru Monastery, Magnetic Hill, Gurudwara Patthar Sahib, Confluence of Zanskar and Indus river and Ladakh Hall of Fame. Reach Leh in the evening. Dinner and overnight stay. MULBEKH GOMPA: Precariously perched a top of a 200 Mts. high crag, it has an imposing rock-carving of Chamba, the future Buddha. On the other end of the valley is a large vertical phallus shaped rock with a monastery at its base. LAMAYURU GOMPA: The oldest holy site in Ladakh, it was a bon shrine prior to the advent of Buddhism. Also known as Yung Drung (Swastika) it is sited on a high promontory overlooking the village and valley. For sheer spectacle value no other Gompa can match Lamayuru. MAGNETIC HILL : Defying the Law of gravity. This place is close to the Gurdwara Shri Patthar Sahib. It has been noticed that when a vehicle is parked on neutral gear on this metallic road the vehicle slides up-hill that’s the Believe it or not of Ladakh! GURDWARA SHRI PATTHAR SAHIB: The Shrine known as Gurdwara Patthar sahib is situated about 25 kms. Short of Leh town on the Leh-Srinagar road. Built in the everlasting memory of Shri Guru Nanak Deve Ji the great prophet who sanctified the place by his sacred visit during the year 1517 while on his second missionary tour (2nd Udassi 1515-1518). The boulder having imprint of the Guru’s back is lying in the Gurdwara to this day. CONFLENCE OF THE ZANSKAR & INDUS : On way to Sham Valley before Nimu village one can have this magnificent view of two rivers in wed-lock! In seasons they have different colors and flow and wildness. LADAKH HALL OF FAME (Monday Close): The Hall of Fame is a glorious museum constructed by the Indian Army. It is worth a visit for every citizen. You can see the memorabilia, eminent defense personalities with biographies, images and weapons used during the Kargil and other key strategic battles fought in Ladakh. And belongings of the enemy soldiers found at war site. All the martyr and the gallantry awards. “Here’s something that you will be proud of our defense personnel who sacrificed themselves so that we could live in peace.”