Day 5:
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The trek begins on this day. The car will drive you spitok
village about 15 minutes drive 7 kms from leh. Start trek from
spituk to jingchin for the first two hours you will be walking on
flat surface which is good for
acclimatization later you will enter into the jingchin valley following the river on
the left bank up stred jinchen is small village with one family divided into three
houses. Afternoon to explore around jinchen & acclimatization. Meal &
overnight camp.
Day 6:
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After breakfast start trek, the initial part of the trail gradually
ascends it is one of the beautiful walks & is also know as the
snow-leopard area & you may come across lot of wild life on
this days walk. At the end of the gorge
you will reach rumbak village & from here on the trail continues on the right to
the tiny settlements on yurutse.camp is set a little beyond this at the foot of
gandhala.
Day 7:
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7 hrs trek the climb to gandhala (16,097 ft/4,878m) is not as
steep as that of the previous day'\s to stokla, but it is longer
from the pass a spectacular panorama of white fringed
mountains merging into distant tanges os the
karakorakm, is revealed. The trail descends steadily to the head of the skiu
valley where a number of rivulets join to from a small stream. The broad
grassy shoulders of the upper valley where sharply to the pinched waist at
sumdho with its few houses and fiends at the junction of a small stream with
skiu nala. From here the river swoops exuberantly down a tight, narrow gorge
choked with willow and wild rose with the trail leaping from bank to bank all
the way to village of skiu on banks of lower markha and the campsite. Sinne
skiu is only at about 9,900-ft/3,000 m and the markha valley is quite narrow.
The temperature is higher here. At dusk just as the evening shadows begin to
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