Excursion to Spiti valley

We had booked a traveller from Jalandhar.
Reaching Himachal pradesh, we climbed a ghat. The ghat was beautiful, the river Satluj flowed below and the sunset colouring the clouds created a fantastic scenery.

We had a little breakfast stay at Hotel Crafreria in evening.

On the route towards Kufri, the night was incredible. The clouds lit up with lighting and the city was full of lights.

Walking through the woods towards the hotel stay (Kufri greens) 1 am at night, looking up we could see the night sky full of stars which was a first experience for me.

A stay like nothing else. With amazing views and beautiful, affordable rooms, this place indeed will capture your heart. At a great price of Rs2000 a day.

The huge hanuman idol is visible from many kms away. Reaching it was tiresome but worth it.

Warning: Take care of your belongings while walking towards the temple as the macaques steal those easily.

At Karcham we saw Satluj rapids and Karcham wangtoo dam built across this powerful river.

We reached our stay at Reckong peo where we had dinner and spent the night.

A small city at 2400 meter elevation, surrounded by huge snow covered mountains and river Satluj.

Woke up at 4:30 am to see the gorgeous snow covered mountains which later due to sunrise looked quite graceful.

At 3500 meters, Nako lake is a great place to relax and have fun playing with stones.

We roamed around Tabo monastery for about 30 minutes as we were running out of time to go to Dhankar.

Trekking to Dhankar lake was very exhausting but believe me when I tell you, it was all worth the effort.

Note: Keep drinking plenty of water while trekking as you can easily get dehydrated.

We returned from the trek and went to Kaza to stay at Hotel Nurbling. The Room was cozy with a price tag of Rs900.

The Buddha statue faces the beautiful landscape and signifies the power of God.

World's Highest village at 4587 meters. The wind blew a bit harder here. But the same incredible views of mountains to be seen.

The place where is located the world's Highest post office at 4440 meters.

The signature location of Spiti valley. The Key monastery - 4116 meters, is home to the peaceful monks. There also is Primary school where we saw children playing.

Inside the monastery there were Meditation chambers where the monks meditated. They were sculpted in rock and nothing from outside can be heard inside.

The monk had prepared a special tea and served it to the visitors. Drinking the tea immediately removed all our tiredness and the effects of elevation.

Then we returned to Kaza. In the free time we roamed Kaza shopping road and got ourselves some souvenirs from the Spiti Souvenir shop.

Full day journey from Kaza to Rampur.

We had a lovely stay at Hotel Mahesh Bar. The room was quite impressive and only at Rs1000 for 2 days.

Small break at Kufri view point then on the way to Shimla we were stuck in traffic for 2 hours.

After Dinner at a Dhaba we continued our overnight journey to Jalandhar where the next day we had train to catch.

The overnight drive was very tiring as we had to stay up to keep driver company.

In the morning we freshened up, had breakfast and waited for the train (Jammutawi-Ahmedabad express) to arrive.