Leh Ladakh India
Leh Ladakh tour packages, family holidays, adventure trips, honeymoon tours and hotels in Leh Ladakh and camps in Nubra Valley, Pangong Lake, Tso Moriri, Alchi, Ulleytokpo, Sham Valley in the India Himalayas.
Besides monastery, gompas and palace tours also on offer are jeep safaris, camel safaris, camping, trekking, adventure trails, village walks, river rafting and visit to wildlife parks.

The flight schedules given above have been taken from the respective airline websites. Kindly check the same at the time of planning your Ladakh tour. We take no responsibility for change in timings and schedules of the same.
 

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Shows:
Leh, Shey, Thiksey, Hemis, Stok, Khardungla Pass.
Nubra Valley: Diskit, Hunder, Sumur, Panamik.
Indus Valley and Sham Valley in Lower or West Ladakh: Sangam, Nimoo, Basgo, Likir, Alchi, Rizong, Lamayuru.
Pangong Lake, Changla Pass, Tangtse, Spangmik.
Tso Moriri, Chumathang, Tso Kar, Tanglang La.
Routes to Manali, Kargil, Srinagar.
 

Permit required for Leh Ladakh Tours
Tourists don't require a permit for Leh. However, all foreigners are required to get themselves registered at Drass, Rumtse and Serchu if they are travelling overland. Those traveling by air get themselves registered at Leh airport.

Both Indian and foreign tourists are required to get inner line permits for restricted areas like Tsomoriri, Tsokar and Pangong Lakes, Dhahanu and Nubra Valley, which can be obtained from District Magistrate, Leh.

The Travel Agents / Travel Agencies / Tour Operators for Leh Ladakh arrange these permits easily within one working day and normally include the nominal price in the tour cost.

Carry an ID proof and passport size photographs.


Phone: +91-11-46593564 / 46593565.
Cellphone:+91--9968658006.
E-Mail: thecaravan@airtelmail.in

Acclimatization and avoiding altitude sickness during trip to Ladakh
Anyone travelling to altitudes above 10,000 ft (3300 m) may suffer from acute mountain sickness (AMS) unless properly acclimatized. The most common symptoms of acute mountain sickness are headache, disturbed sleep and loss of appetite, nausea, coughing, irregular breathing, breathlessness, lassitude and lack of concentration. If you are reaching Leh by air, it is important to take complete rest for the first 24 hours after arrival. Any kind of physical exertion should be avoided. Smoking and drinking should also be avoided till you are fully acclimatized. “Rest” means complete lying down in your hotel room without reading or watching TV.  It is absolutely important to keep yourself properly hydrated by drinking enough water. Ladakh is dry in nature and lacks moisture. Your body should get used to the lower oxygen level of Ladakh for which you should take complete rest for the first 24 hours and as much rest as possible during the next 12 hours.

The main centre for health care in Leh is the SNM Hospital, which is well equipped and staffed by specialists to handle all problems. Elsewhere in the region, there are sub-district hospitals at block headquarters and medical dispensaries in major villages, which are staffed by qualified doctors.

Diamox, popularly suggested to prevent AMS, should be taken under medical advise only. Also note that it is a sulfa drug (many people are allergic to sulfa drugs), is a diuretic and is not a cure for AMS but if prescribed is done so for prevention of AMS and is taken before the ascent.

Rest, water and aspirin (in case of headaches) is probably the best and safest way of avoiding acute mountain sickness, AMS. Descending to lower altitudes also combats AMS.

Things to Carry on a Leh Ladakh Tour Package:
Good U/V protection sun glasses. 
Sun Cap.
Sunscreen with at least 35 degree SPF.
Flashlight or torch.
Comfortable clothing.
Good pair of walking shoes.
At least one warm jacket and pullover.
Personal medicines.   
Binocular for landscape, mountain ranges and wildlife viewing.
Digital camera with wide-angle lens, extra memory sticks or devices for downloading the pictures frequently.  
Your sense of humour, indomitable spirit and footloose attitude.
 

More on Leh Ladakh ....

Like the land itself, the people of Leh Ladakh are generally quite different from those of the rest of India. The faces and physique of the Ladakhis, and the clothes they wear, are more akin to those of Tibet and Central Asia than of India. The original population may have been Dards, an Indo-Aryan race down from the Indus and the Gilgit area.

Ladakh was the conduit through which Buddhism reached Tibet from India and in the process it got deeply entrenched in the region from the very beginning. The approach to a Buddhist village is invariably marked by mani walls which are long, chest-high structures faced with engraved stones bearing the Buddhist mantra and by chortens / stupas.
Many villages in Ladakh are crowned with a Gompa or monastery, which may be anything from an imposing complex of temples, prayer halls and monks' dwellings, to a tiny heritage housing a single image and home to a solitary lama.

Most of the Gompas celebrate an annual festival. These take the form of dance-dramas in the gompa courtyards. Lamas, attired in colourful robes and wearing masks, perform mimes symbolising various aspects of the religion such as the progress of the individual soul and its purification or the triumph of good over evil. The biggest and most famous of the monastic festivals is that of Hemis, which falls in late June or early July, and is dedicated to Padmasambhava. Other monasteries, which have summer festivals, are Lamayuru (early July), Phyang (late July/ early August), Tak-thok (after Phyang) and Karsha in Zanskar (after Phyang).

Ladakh has variously been coined as Land of Mountain Passes, Lost Kingdom, Little Tibet, Last Shangri-La, Moon City, Roof of the World.

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The Caravan is a tour operator and travel agency with its corporate, sales and marketing office in New Delhi, India. Our Leh Ladakh tour packages and its operations and logistics are handled locally from Leh Ladakh. Our local partners are Ladakhis and sons of the soil based in Leh (in Ladakh India) and we together operate hotels, camps and a fleet of vehicles with a team of experienced guides and tour escorts in Ladakh.