• Time: 3-4 hrs
  • Distance: 9.1 km
  • Elevation: Lamayuru: 3450m/11,320ft
  • Prinkiti La: 3700m/12,140ft.
  • Wanla: 3200m/10,500ft
  • Walk down the stream and follow its bed east.
  • Walk up the bottom of the small gully on the left until it divides in three directions, taking the left fork which winds steeply up to the prinkiti la.
  • The pretty wanla village with its 11th century gompa high up on a crag, make a pleasant place to stop.
  • Time: 5 hrs
  • Distance: 12 km
  • Elevation: 3200m/10,500ft
  • Ursi: 3670m/12,040ft
  • Trek from wanla to phanjila.
  • The trail to Alchi turns NE up the Ripchar valley, after the main group of houses the track climbs by a series of hairpin bends and traverses, a high steep, unstable slope for 3km.
  • Time: 8-9 hrs
  • Distance: 11 km
  • Elevation: 4850m/15,910ft.
  • The going can be difficult over the jumble of boulders on the floor of the gorge, before the valley widens on its way up the mountain side.
  • The views from the top are as good as you do expect, stretching south to the Zanskar Range and east along the Indus Valley. The descent to Tar is a long and arduous one through a seemingly endless deep valley.
  • Time: 7-8 hrs
  • Distance: 11 km
  • Elevation: Tar 3250m/10,660ft
  • Hibti la 4150m/13,620ft
  • Mang gyu 4140m/13,850ft
  • There are many places to camp in both the upper and lower past of the village.
  • From the pass there are sensational views of the Indus Valley stretching away to the east as far as Leh.
  • Follow the route up this valley, which gets gradually steeper as it nears the top.
  • Time: 4-5 hrs
  • Distance: 11 km
  • Elevation: Mang gyu 4140m/13,580ft
  • Alchi 3150m/10,340ft
  • Mang Gyu is stretched out on a spur of the hillside above the confluence of the two rivers.
  • Camping spot is on the flat ground near the confluence of the two rivers.
  • The small Gompa dates from the 11th century is at the top of the village.
  • Two hrs Drive back to Leh.