Hills and High Places - 16 days
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Overview
Highlights
- High Himalayas - Marvel at exhilarating mountain vistas and home to Mount Everest
- Dharamshala - Explore this city and its laid back Buddhist atmosphere
- Amritsar – Tour highlights of the city including the iconic Golden Temple and the Jallianwala Bagh memorial
- Alchi Monastery - Visit this classic Himalayan Gompa
- Sarchu and Sahsur Gompas - See its priceless 5 metre painting of all 84 Buddhist sidhas
- Keylong - Travel along Rhotang Pass and the Tanglang Pass
- Leh - Discover ‘Little Tibet’, Sankar Gompa, Shanti Stupa, Hemis Monastery, Shey Monastery and Tikse Gompa
- Enjoy Palampur Tea Estate, Manali and adventure sports
- Delhi - Explore the capital of India
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Trip includes
- Breakfast daily, 4 lunches and 4 dinners
- 14 nights 4 star hotels
- 1 night permanent tented camp
- Touring and excursions as per itinerary
- Entrance fees for all included sightseeing
- Services of English-speaking Indian specialist guides for all included sight-seeing
- 2 economy class flights: Delhi to Amritsar and Leh to Delhi
- An airport arrival transfer day 1 and a departure transfer day 16
- All relevant transfer and transportation in private modern Chauffeur driven air-conditioned vehicles (**mountain vehicles are not air-conditioned)
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Itinerary
Once you've arrived in Delhi, you'll be met and transferred to and afternoon flight to Amritsar and hotel check in.
Amritsar. This morning enjoy a tour of Amritsar, taking in the beautiful Golden Temple, considered the holiest shrine to Sikhs the world over, yet open to all. Surrounded by a complex of sparkling white marble and a lake for purification the lavishly guilded temple wi...
Amritsar - Dharamsala. Driving north to Dharamsala offers some dramatic scenery, where rolling foothills rise high toward snow capped peaks. Dharamsala, the British hill station turned Tibetan settlement, home to the Dalai Lama and thousands of Tibetan refugees offers...
Dharamsala - Palampur - Manali. En route to Manali a stop is made at Palampur - a pretty hill station enclosed by aged British tea plantations. Touring a colonial plantation, set upon the mounting slopes of Kangra Valley, criss crossed by babbling brooks offers a chan...
Manali - Rohtang Pass - Keylong. Continuing north and rising to 3980 metres above sea level along the Rhotang Pass we arrive at the village of Keylong - 120 km from the Tibetan border.
Keylong - Sarchu. En route to Sarchu there is time to stop and explore Sahsur Gompa, a beautiful Buddhist Temple built in the 17th century housing priceless 5 metre ‘Tankha’, (wall painting) depicting all 84 sidhas of Buddhism.
Keylong - Tanglang La Pass - Leh. Rudyard Kipling said of the region “Surely the Gods live here this is no place for men.” Travelling over the Tanglang La Pass at a dizzying height of 5350 metres confirms our arrival to the remote and sparsely populated region of Lada...
Leh - Alchi. Alchi is set amongst the desolate gorges of the Indus River and spectacular mountains. Here we will visit the Alchi Gompa, a must see Buddhist Temple dating back to 1000 AD. On day 13 we return to Leh.
Leh - Delhi - breakfast. Morning flight to Delhi and hotel check in upon arrival. The remainder of today and tomorrow offer free time to independently explore. Consider visits to the Red Fort, Qutab Minar and Raj Ghat.
Sadly today arrangements conclude after breakfast and onward departure transfer to the airport.
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