Snow leopard trek in Ladakh, India
Not included: Personal insurance, domestic and international flights, sleeping bags. Snow leopard trekking runs from December to March.
Description of Snow leopard trek in Ladakh, India
This trip to Ladakh gives you the best possible chances of spotting and photographing snow leopards in the wild. You’ll spend eight days in two of the best locations in the area for sightings: Hemis National Park, and around the village of Ulley.
You’ll be accompanied by a seasoned team of experts, including a local guide and a conservationist who knows the best vantage points in the area for sightings and the behavioural patterns of the leopards. They’ll ensure any budding photographers get the best possible shots. This all-local team will also share great insight into the culture of the area, including showing you how to visit villages, homestays and monasteries respectfully and how local people peacefully coexist with the leopards.
This is an adventurous trek in a mountainous region. Whilst no mountaineering skills are needed, you’ll be walking at altitude in winter months and camping. Pack ponies carry the equipment, and you’ll travel with a team of staff who’ll cook and organise a cosy campsite. You’ll need to bring an adventurous spirit and a sleeping bag.
Whilst the bulk of this trip is devoted to leopard watching, you’ll also have time to explore more of the Indus Valley. You might enjoy a spot of birdwatching and visit monasteries. If you visit in February, swap leopards for goats by visiting the Likir Monastic Festival in the village of Likir – the so-called ‘Festival of the Scapegoat’.
Going snow leopard spotting is a fantastic way to bring much-needed tourism income to the Ladakh region in the winter months, when very few people visit. This tour runs any time between December and March.
Price information
Not included: Personal insurance, domestic and international flights, sleeping bags. Snow leopard trekking runs from December to March.
Departure information
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Planet
Ladakh has a fragile environment with endangered flora and fauna. We encourage our travellers not to disturb the wildlife and birds, discouraging close photography, and discouraging guests from feeding marmots and other wildlife. We give proper briefings to our travellers before they undertake any of our outdoor activities.We follow the concept of Leave No Trace. We produce cloth and straw bags for shopping, which we can re-use, and we use big clothes bags for trekking so that we can bring any rubbish back with us. We keep packaged items to the minimum.
Whilst trekking we use solar panel for electricity, and for charging camera batteries.
Whilst trekking we discourage travellers from washing clothes or bathing in the stream and water canals up above the farm villages. We also discourage the use shampoo and detergent in the stream water.
We encourage our guests to be economical with water, as many of our villages are facing severe water crises.
We have promised to reduce carbon emissions. Our crew don’t burn rubbish on trekking expeditions. Our office runs off solar and we don’t use other heating sources, to avoid smoke and ensure we provide safe energy. We use public transport and our staffs use bicycles to get around.
People
We buy local vegetables, fruits and oil from the local farmers, they are organic and direct benefit to the local farmers.We encourage guests to buy local products from the women self help groups from different villages. They produce woolen hat, sock, gloves, sweater, and shawl. This practice generate income and encourage their traditional weaving, and knitting skill.
We organise a special cleanup trek once in a year normally end of the trekking season to bring awareness and collecting trash from trekking routs.
All our employees are local and that’s is the pride of our company, and we offer fair deal and handsome salary package and in return we became one the best operator in the region.
We are in contact with some remote school to contribute the best from our side, recently we have installed solar water heaters in two residential schools.
While visiting local villages, homestays, monasteries we give a proper briefing and encourage or clients to respect the local cultures , we also give some notes of Do and Don’ts while entering the conservative host communities.
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