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Pangong Tso, 4,350 m — day 5 of a week we planned last Tuesday

A trip you could actually follow, hour by hour.

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The same panel pins beside every plan you open.

Four places, and the weeks they are actually worth.

Season and permit decide an Indian trip before taste gets a say. Ladakh is the only summer on this list — everything else runs from October to March.

  1. LadakhLeh, Nubra, Pangong
    JanAprJulOct

    Passes open through May; the Shyok road goes with the first heavy snow.

    May – late September7 daysfrom ₹52,400 a headInner Line Permit
  2. AlappuzhaBackwaters, Kumarakom, Marari
    JanAprJulOct

    Worth it once the south-west monsoon has drained off the backwaters.

    October – March5 daysfrom ₹34,900 a headNo permit
  3. SohraShillong, Sohra, Nongriat
    JanAprJulOct

    Sohra takes 11 m of rain a year, nearly all of it May to September.

    October – April6 daysfrom ₹41,200 a headNo permit
  4. JodhpurJodhpur, Osian, Jaisalmer
    JanAprJulOct

    Jodhpur is 42°C by late March. November to February is the whole season.

    November – February6 daysfrom ₹38,600 a headNo permit
The weeks we sellShoulder, and we will say soWe will not plan it

Seven days, drawn as height.

This is the September week in the panel above, plotted metre by metre against the 777 km you drive. Two nights on the valley floor, then Khardung La at 5,359 m on the third morning. Nobody sleeps high until they have slept low twice.

3,0004,0005,0003,6003,600 m — days 1 and 2 stay below itKhardung La5,359 mChang La5,360 mTurtuk · 2,900 mSouth Pullupermit checkedLukungpermit checkedLeh · 3,500 m · nights 1 and 2Hunder · 3,100 mHunder · 3,100 mSpangmik · 4,350 mLeh · 3,500 m · night 6Days 1–266 kmDay 3118 kmDay 4172 kmDay 5160 kmDay 6223 kmDay 738 km
Where you sleepPassInner Line Permit checkedThe height we will not cross until you have slept twiceSwipe the drawing to follow the road east.

The two gold rings are checkposts. Your Inner Line Permit is applied for in your names at ₹400 plus ₹20 a person a day, collected at the DC office in Leh on day 2, and in your inbox as a PDF before you fly — the constable at South Pullu and the one at Lukung will each want to see it.

The same week again, this time against the clock.

Every hour in this plan is either daylight you can use or road you have to cover. Day 3 leaves at 06:30 because the army convoys start up Khardung La at seven; day 4 is six hours in a car for four hours in Turtuk, and we say so before you book it.

  1. 1Mon6 km · 20 min
    Land, then do nothing
  2. 2Tue58 km · 2 h 40
    Valley floor only
  3. 3Wed118 km · 5 h
    Over Khardung La
  4. 4Thu172 km · 6 h
    Turtuk and back
  5. 5Fri160 km · 6 h 30
    Shyok road to Pangong
  6. 6Sat223 km · 5 h 30
    Back over Chang La
  7. 7Sun38 km · 1 h 20
    Prayers, then the flight
Daylight in Leh, mid-SeptemberIn the carA stop with a time against it

How a plan gets made, and when.

The week you ask

A planner calls for twenty minutes: how much walking, how early you get up, whether anyone in the group has been above 4,000 m before. The first draft comes back in two working days.

Ten days before

Permits are filed, the driver is named, and every booking is re-confirmed against the road status. If Chang La is shut you hear it from us, not from the driver at the checkpost.

While you are there

The same planner is on WhatsApp from 06:00 to 23:00 IST. Rain in Sohra, a closed pass, a stomach that has had enough — the day gets rewritten and the panel updates on your phone.

And what the week costs, to scale.

Ladakh, 14–20 September 2026, two travellers out of Chennai₹1,04,800

35%
30%
26%
8%
Flights₹36,800
Chennai–Delhi–Leh return, 2 travellers
Stays₹31,500
6 nights, twin rooms and one camp
Transfers₹27,600
Innova Crysta with driver, 6 days, fuel included
Activities & permits₹8,900
Monastery fees, Inner Line Permit, camel ride, guide days

The same week, split three ways

  1. 2 travellers₹1,04,800 in total
    ₹52,400

    One twin room, one Innova, one driver.

  2. 4 travellers₹1,82,000 in total
    ₹45,500

    Two rooms. Same car, same driver, split four ways.

  3. 6 travellers₹2,81,000 in total
    ₹46,833

    Three rooms and a second vehicle out of Leh. The saving stops here.

“We had booked Ladakh ourselves in 2023 and spent day two on a drip in Leh. This time the plan refused to let us go anywhere near a pass until Wednesday, and all four of us walked the dunes at Hunder.”
Anitha Sundaram — travelled with her family from Coimbatore, September 2025

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