One of the most exciting and spectacular road trips in the World, Manali to Leh is a holiday package dream tour for photographers, nature lovers and adventure loving people. Manali to Leh Ladakh road trip is highly recommended for family, single women travellers or for couples. The tour from Manali to Leh Ladakh by road over the world’s seven highest mountain passes provide panoramic Himalayan views and a unique travel experience where you enjoy history, local culture, food, dances, traditional arts and crafts. Once in a lifetime tour where the real excitement, adventure, fun and pleasure, is in the journey itself than in reaching the destination.
Duration : 7 Nights / 8 Days
Location : Manali Leh Ladakh Valley
Best Season : Mid June to Mid September
Category : Cultural, Heritage and Nature
Covering : Manali, Atal Tunnel, Keylang, Jispa, Sarchu, Pang, Leh, Khardung La pass, Nubra valley, Pangong Lake
You can take it : As a private, personalised tour (tour dates would be of your choice)
Special About Tour :
One of the most exciting and spectacular road trips in the World, Manali to Leh is a holiday package dream tour for photographers, nature lovers and adventure loving people. Manali to Leh Ladakh road trip is highly recommended for family, single women travellers or for couples. The tour from Manali to Leh Ladakh by road over the world’s seven highest mountain passes provide panoramic Himalayan views and a unique travel experience where you enjoy history, local culture, food, dances, traditional arts and crafts. Once in a lifetime tour where the real excitement, adventure, fun and pleasure, is in the journey itself than in reaching the destination.
The most popular summer holiday Manali to Leh road trip adventure holiday tour package takes you to explore the Ladakh region which is one of the least populated regions and is famous as the best offbeat tourism destination in India. You discover the ancient monasteries; enjoy the camel rides at the sand dunes of Nubra valley, camping at Sarchu and Pangong Lake, journey over the World’s highest seven mountain passes including the Khardungla pass 18,380 feet are just a few highlights of the Manali Leh road trip.
Treat the below Manali Leh road trip adventure holiday tour package just as inspiration, as each trip is created uniquely for you, around your interest and requirements. Summit Safari India will make your tour a memorable and extra ordinary travel experience to cherish forever….!
Brief Itinerary : Manali > Jispa ( 1 Night) > Sarchu ( 1 Night)> Leh ( 3 Nights) > Nubra valley ( 1 Night) > Pangong Lake ( 1 Night) and fly back to Chandigarh at the end.
Tourists require an Inner Line permit to visit some of the areas in Leh Ladakh which are close to the China border. Our local office will complete the formalities and obtain the Inner Line permits for you in Leh.
This is the tour itinerary for the Manali Leh Road Trip Adventure Holiday Tour Package, which we run it regularly. It can be altered & customised as we like to discuss plans with clients and can make suggestions about special places to visit depending on our clients’ interests, and available time. You can get an idea of your holidays from the mentioned tour. The itinerary is planned in such a way that while travelling you get a good time to experience India and see the real life of Indian people from much closer.
Whether you choose to be on a privately guided tour to India or set off on a more independent trip, with local guides available wherever required, you can travel reassured, knowing our vast experience and provide you with around-the-clock support to smooth out anything unexpected. The safety and well-being of our guests is paramount.
Today you will arrive Manali at your own arrangements. This day you will just relax which will help you to acclimatize before starting the Manali Leh Manali Jeep Safari tour.
Please Note: This day even we can pick you up from Ambala railway station ( 335 kms/10 hrs) or Chandigarh railway station / airport. Chandigarh airport is close to Manli (292 kms/ 9 hrs) and flights to Chandigarh are available from New Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore, Mumbai, and Chennai and from many other major cities in India. This is going to cost you extra.
OR There are day and overnight AC Luxury Volvo buses available from New Delhi to Manali directly, which we can book for you.
Today’s hotel accommodation has to be paid by you, but if you want we can book the same for you.
Today morning 7:30 A.M our driver will come to pick you from the hotel and drive you to Jispa to start with your Manali Leh Road Trip Adventure Holiday Tour Package. Today we drive you over the Rohtang pass (3,980 meters/ 13,ooo feet)-- Meaning The Pass Of Corpses, which remain closed 6 months in a year due to heavy snowfall. We entered into the Lahaul valley as soon as we cross the Rohtang pass.
We will stop for lunch at Khoksar and further we continue our drive to Jispa through Tandi and Keylong. .
Enroute we will take you to visit the Khardhang gompa in Keylang. You will also have some time free to walk around the local market of Keylang which is the district heaquaters of Lahaul Spiti valley.
We will arrive Jispa by late afternoon, which itself is a very tiny the night at the tiny settlement with a couple of local houses, hotels and camps. Jispa sits at the foot of the mighty 16,000-foot Baralacha Pass at an altitude of some 10,500 feet – again providing valuable acclimatization time before heading really high on the Manali Leh Highway.
Meals Plan: Breakfast + Dinner are included.
After breakfast check out from the hotel at 9:00 A.M and we will drive you to Sarchu14,500 feet (85 kms / 4 -5 hrs), which includes many hairpins, especially in the scaling of a sinuous ribbon of tarmac up to our second mountain pass, Baralacha La (4,830 metres/ 15, 847 feet) the second mountain pass on our journey. The view from the top is extraordinary.
Today we enter from the brown mountains of the Lahaul to the golden sandy mountains at Sarchu. On the other side of Baralacha descend onto a huge, open plain with an azure river frothing at its centre, surrounded by huge mountains. Sarchu is situated on the border of Himachal Pradesh and Ladakh region, where on arrival we will stay in a fixed tented accommodation with attached toilets in a seasonal camp at Sarchu. Evening is free to walk around Sarchu Plains.
Meals Plan-: Breakfast + Dinner are included.
After breakfast around 7:00 A.M we will leave for Leh 3,524 metres / 11,562 feet ( 252 kms / 8 hrs) the Union Territory Of India, since August 2019, earlier it was the part of Jammu & Kashmir state. Today we ride through 21 hair pin bends to Lachlung La Pass (5,019 metres/ 16, 467 feet) the third mountain pass on our journey and Enroute we enjoy magnificent views of the Mountains and the valleys.
Today after breakfast we will make an easy start at 10:00 A.M and will take you for a half day sightseeing tour around Leh to visit the Hall of Fame, Leh Fort, Shanti Stupa, Stok palace and museum. Evening you will be free to walk around the local market of Leh. Today our local office in Leh will prepare your inner line permits which are required to travel further to Nubra valley and Pangong Lake. Second night in the same hotel in Leh.
Meals Plan: Breakfast + Dinner are included.
Today after breakfast check out from the hotel at 8:30 A.M. and we will drive you on the Ancient Silk Route from Leh to Nubra valley, over the world’s highest Motorable road Kardung la Pass- 18,380 feet. On arrival at Diskit village we will visit the Diskit monastery and the statue of Buddha. Later check in to the hotel and in the late afternoon we drive you to Hunder village where you can visit the sand dunes and enjoy the camel ride on double humped Bactrian camel. These double humped camels are left here from the time when silk caravans stopped trading through the old traditional routes carrying the silk from China to Central Asia. You can also enjoy the cultural dance performances performed by the local ethnic tribal people. Overnight in hotel at Nubra Valley for 1 night.
Meals Plan: Breakfast + Dinner are included.
Today after breakfast check out from the hotel and we drive you to Pangong Lake ( 185 kms/ 5.30 hrs) via Shyok Village crossing Durbuk and Tangste. Arrive by afternoon at the Pangong Lake which is the largest lake in the Himalayas situated at a height of about 4,350 metres (14,300 ft). It is 134 km long and extends from India to China (Chinese occupied Tibet) 60% of the length of the lake lies in China. The lake is 5 km wide at its broadest point. The entire area provides spectacular views of the mountains of the Changchenmo range to the north, their reflections shimmering in the ever-changing blues and greens of the lake’s bluish water. Afternoon will be free to relax and walk around the Pangong lake, you can even have a horse riding and visit the three idiots shooting point at the lake. Overnight in fixed tented accommodation at Pangong Lake for 1 night.
Please Note: Today you need to start early morning drive at 06:00 A.M due to rough road as you have to cross various water streams and Shyok River to reach Pangong Lake. In the afternoon the water level rises high so it is highly recommended to make a early start today morning. Please follow the drivers instructions as early start on some days are the necessity of this Himalayan Road Trip. The driving option from valleys to valleys depends on the road conditions and weather and our local drivers will suggest you the best options.
Every year government permits to fix, tented accommodation at a safe distance from the lake depending on the security of the region-in case government don’t allow tented accommodation by the lake we will arrange accommodation at Tangtse (back towards Leh -30 kms) in the hotel /guest house.
Meals Plan: Breakfast + Dinner are included.
Today after breakfast check out from the camp and we will drive you back to Leh (160 kms/ 5 hrs), over Chang La pass (17,500 feet). This morning there are chances to see the marmots, which come out of their holes during the early morning hrs to have sun. Enroute you can also stop in the camps of Nomadic people just before the Chan la pass where they are busy grazing their yaks. You can see how they stock butter and make Chura ( dry cheese) out of the fresh yak milk. You can also have a cup of tea with the nomadic people. You will also stop to visit the Thiksey monastery one of the biggest in Ladakh. You will arrive Leh by late afternoon and rest of the time is free to explore Leh market and do your final shopping. Overnight stay in a hotel in Leh.
Meals Plan: Breakfast + Dinner are included.
Today morning after breakfast, check out from the hotel and we will transfer you to the airport in Leh to board your beautiful flight over the Greater Himalayas back to New Delhi.
On arrival at New Delhi continue for your further journey back home.
End Of The tour and the services....!
These destinations are still hidden by groups of tourist, but still a good number of tourists come to explore these beautiful parts of Himalayas in North India. These places have plenty of hotels, which are well equipped with all modern amenities and comprises variety of deluxe hotels, budget hotels, guest houses, home stay with local people, fixed luxury tented accommodation. Most of these are run by the locals of these areas. One can choose the place of accommodation according to one’s requirement and budget.
You stay in comfortable Neat and Clean local hotels , guest houses including some luxury tented camp all as preferred by you.
Your living arrangements are not going to be 5 star on this tour, but we do believe that we cater to people requiring different levels of comfort, and most importantly where you stay is CLEAN and COMFORTABLE. We would like to discuss and make suggestions about accommodation at the time of planning your holidays with us.
Meals Plan: Room + Breakfast + Dinner
Cloths: Cottons with light woollens
You will follow the itinerary as a Private tour. Internal travel by road from Manali to Jispa, Sarchu, Leh, Nubra Valley, Pangong Lake, and back to Leh is by a private chauffeur-driven SUV Toyota Crysta / similar vehicle.
On request travel arrangements starting from New Delhi to Manali and internal flight from Leh to New Delhi at the end of the tour could be provided by us – at additional extra cost, or you can do it directly.
The Cost would be provided on Request
Please Note: The Cost of our each tour is based as per individual requirements, interests and budget of the client. The tour cost depending on the hotel accommodations you choose, food plan, mode of transportation you choose, whether you choose to include Escorted guide throughout the tour or set off on a more independent trip, with local guides available wherever required during the tour. This all we discuss with you while planning your tour and work out the best cost for your tour, accordingly.
We'll work with you until you’re satisfied with every detail of your India Holiday Tour. We'll then manage all your reservations and logistics in India, so that you’re taken care of from the moment you landed in India until your return back. The safety and well-being of our guests is paramount.