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Key Monastery – The Largest Gompa of Spiti
Key Monastery, also spelled as Ki or Kye or Kee. This monastery is located at an altitude of 13500 Ft and its more than 1000 years old. While on the way to Kunzum pass I saw the first glimpse of the Key monastery from Rangrik. Today, it was time to visit the largest Monastery in spiti – The Kee Gompa. The Key monastery is one of the must visit place in Spiti valley. Key Monastery The Key Monastery is more than 1000 years old. Also, it is the largest monastery in Spiti valley. I had seen this monastery first time in one of the episodes of the documentary called way…
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Snowy drive to The Kunzum Pass
The Kunzum pass is a mountain pass situated at a height of around 15000 ft from sea level. The Kunzum pass connects the Lahaul and Spiti regions of Himachal Pradesh. After having an amazing time at Langza, it was time to head to next destination in our itinerary –Kunzum Pass. This pass is closed in winters as it snows a lot here. We were there during the end of winter, still we encountered snow fall on our way to the kunzum pass. This snowy drive was a really good experience. Once we cross the Kunzum pass, the road descends towards Batal. After passing the rough roads of Batal, Chhatru, we…
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Langza Village- The Popular Fossil Village
After wandering around Kaza, it was time to visit some village near Kaza. There are a lot of villages that one can visit near Kaza, like Langza, Hikkim, Komic, Kibber, chicham. This post is dedicated to the Langza village. We couldnt visit the other villages because the snow had blocked the roads. One more reason to avoid other places was that we went during the mating season of the local wildlife species such as Ibex and snow leopards. Langza is famous among tourists, mainly because of the giant buddha statue, and the amazing view of the snow-laden mountains. The road from Kaza to Langza is mostly tarmac. The journey to…
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A day in Kaza town, Spiti valley
This is the 4th blog post in the Spiti winter drive series. In the previous post I shared my travel experience from Kalpa to Kaza. The heavy landslide at Malling nallah delayed our arrival at Kaza but still we enjoyed our complete journey. We slept quite late last night but still I woke up at around 6 AM today. I was very excited to witness the first glimpse of Kaza, so I got up and rushed to the balcony of the room. It was bone-chilling cold outside, the temperature was around -10°C. The amazing view outside absorbed all the hangover from the last night. Standing in the balcony, I could…
