Tibet: Ladakh – Festivals, Monasteries and Waters
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Overview
Highlights
- Explore Leh
- Visit Shankar Gompa monastery
- visit three monasteries – Hemis, Chemre and Dak Thok
- Explore Nubra Valley
- Enjoy Raft from Phey to Nimmu
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- Local English-speaking guides in Delhi and Ladakh.
- All hotel accommodations
- All transfers and transportation as indicated in itinerary.
- Monument entrance and still camera fees
- Daily a la carte breakfast in Delhi
- Ladakh – All meals, including beverages
- Meet and assist at all airports and hotels
- Porterage at all airports and hotels
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Accommodation: Hotel Eaton Airport Transit Hotel Or Radisson Blu Plaza Delhi
Arriving in Delhi, you will clear customs and immigration. If you want to overnight in the airport, you will stay
at the Eaton Airport Hotel. If you prefer to exit, you can stay at the Radisson.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel Snowview, The Druk Ladakh Or Sera Courtyard
Rising early, you will fly from Delhi to Leh, over the entire Himalayan range - a champagne flight with snowcapped peaks like foam on the top of a narrow ...
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Accommodation: Hotel Snowview, The Druk Ladakh Or Sera Courtyard
(Note that in September, these days will be adjusted to accommodate the Ladakh Festival)
Moving slowly, you will pay a visit to first to Shankar Go...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel Snowview, The Druk Ladakh Or Sera Courtyard
This morning, you will visit three monasteries – Hemis, Chemre and Dak Thok.
Stagtshang Richen, who was invited to Ladakh by King Singe Namgyal, fo...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
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Accommodation: Hotel Desert Himalaya Camp & Resort
(Note that in July, this day will be adjusted to accommodate the Silk Road Festival)
Heading out of Leh, you will drive north to the Nubra Valley, crossing t...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel Desert Himalaya Camp & Resort
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Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel Snowview, The Druk Ladakh Or Sera Courtyard
This morning you will wind your way back to Leh. On the way, you will stop at Hundar Village, where you can spend time with the people and get a sense of the rhythms of their lifestyle.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel Ulley Ethnic Resort
Time to hit the water! Leaving Leh, you will drive to Phey, where you will pick up your rafts and crew. Here you will begin rafting to Nimmu. At this point, the Indus River enter...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
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Today is special. You have a hair-raising drive over the mountains on a very narrow road to Lamayuru, one of the most spectacularly located monasteries in Ladakh.
Lamayuru...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel Home Stay
If you did not overnight in Lamayuru, you will spend today visiting two of the nearby villages, Dah and Bema. If you did overnight, you will simply drive back towards Leh.
Dah and B...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel Snowview, The Druk Ladakh Or Sera Courtyard
You can spend as much time as you wish with your family learning about their lives and perhaps helping out. When you are ready, you will return to Leh and your hotel.
Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Hotel Vivanta By Taj – Ambassador
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Today, you can explore Delhi, the third largest city in India, located on the west bank of the Yamuna River. There is perhaps no place in India that can compare with Delhi in the number of its monuments, dating from the time of the I...
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- Comprehensive insurance coverage, including medical, evacuation, baggage loss/delay, cancellation ins., etc.
- Round trip flight Delhi/Leh/Delhi – Broken out separately
- Airport taxes
- Visa fees
- Meals, except where indicated
- Liquor
- Laundry or other items of a personal nature
- Tips and gratuities to local guides, escorts, drivers and airport representatives
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International Airfare/Air Tickets: Refund subject to airline cancellation rules and procedures.
Land Portion & Internal Air*: Refund will be given according to the schedule outlined below.
NOTE: Minimum cancellation charge is $1,000 even for trips with land cost less than $1500.
- If 120 Days or more prior to departure date, then Applicable Cancellation Fee is $1,000 per person plus any varying non-refundable pre-payments we have made in advance on your behalf (i.e. Penalties incurred for cancelling air, deposits paid to hold reservations, etc.)
- If 61-119 Days prior to departure date, then Applicable Cancellation Fee is 50% of the land cost plus any varying non-refundable pre-payments we have made in advance on your behalf (i.e. Penalties incurred for cancelling air, deposits paid to hold reservations, etc.)
- 60 Days or less, then No refund
- At or after departure, then No refund
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