Hike to North oasis of Leh

You can get to the ancient moraine with a lone chorten in three ways. The first is a descent on an alternative path from Tsemo Namgyal gompa and then continue further to the north along the asphalt road. You can then see to see an interesting composition of chortens right at the beginning. Or go to the north along the road leading from Shanti stupa. The third option is to get off during the return from a trip to Khardung la pass in places where the road approaches the most the agricultural oasis and come to him from the „other“ side.

You do not need to climb anywhere high to the hills, the beautiful chortens can be seen also along road. Stok Kangri is visible on the horizon.

There are nice views of the mountain Nanga Sago on the walk. It still has a nice snow cap at the beginning of the season. Its small glacier is on the north side, so it is not even visible from Leh.

After about an hour from the town center you finally arrive at your destination – to the beautiful chorten on the ancient moraine. You must first walk around a cluster of houses formerly called village Gonpa and mobile operator tower.

From chorten you can see the fertile bottom of former glacier and the other side of moraine straight as a line, along which leads the asphalt road to the world famous Khardung la pass.

Evening beautiful shadow plays on the arid mountains belong to ladakh photogenic classics.

Fluttering streamers and views of the high mountains – another of ladakh classics. In the background you can see the famous twisting road to Khardung la pass.

Even the small oases under the chorten is worth seeing – omnipresent walls served mainly for storing lots of stones from humble fields.

There are becoming more and more new chortens in Ladakh. You can see these quite close to the starting point to the moraine.