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Tour starts from your first ride to Banjar valley. Worth visiting this beautiful hill station. Your second encounter would be driving towards east Bhima Kali temple at Sarhan. Beautiful landscape and Himalayan panorama will attract your cameras.

Sangla valley is famous for its greenery and beautiful landscapes and rich flaura and fauna. Kalpa situated on bit high altitude offers an incredible view of Kinnar Kailash Peak on an aerial distance. Full of apple orchards and kamru fort would be another attraction at this location.

Kalpa onwards by following Satluj river originating from Tibet your vegetation will get change and arrive Nako the last village of this border area. Nako has a beautiful lake which freezes in the winter and villagers play ice hockey during this period and seeing the temple of Padamsambhava, the second incarnation of lord Buddha who made Buddhism popular in the Trans Himalayas is worht seeing where we can see the foot prints of the Padamsambhava. Further drive will take you to one of the major monastery called Tabo.

Spread over an area of almost 3000 sq. m, surrounded by a thick mud wall, Tabo gompa is divided into three buildings with the middle structure being most interesting and important. Tabo (also spelt as Ta-pho) was established a thousand years ago and was a part of Western Tibet school which originally designed different mandalas in the form of statues hanging on the walls of the gompa to meditate upon. However 800 years ago with the arrival of Guru Padmasambhava in Tibet, and with the introduction of his new sect –

The Pin Valley is known to be full of wildlife – ibex, khangral, marmot, bharal, are commonly seen on the high slopes with the elusive snow leopard occasionally visible looking for prey. In the afternoon walk around and explore the Pin valley. Dhankar, a most incredibly-situated gompa, perched high on barren rocky mountain slopes. As you progress, the whole Dhankar village opens up in front of you like something artificial crops up from nowhere. Park your vehicles at the beginning of the village and walk for about half an hour past mud houses on to your right and fields to the left with the Spiti river flowing down below.

Kaza, the sub-divisional headquarters of Spiti. It boasts of a P.W.D. Rest House, a couple of small private guest houses, a branch of the State Bank of India, a school, a dry cleaners, post and telegraph office and a helipad. three kms from Kaza is the Rong Ting Hydel Project which generates electricity for most of the villages in Spiti. Also visit the new Sa-kya-pa monastery.

Driving down from Kaza to Manali, you have to Cross the major pass called Kunjum Pass ( 4590 M ASL) and follow Chandra River after a while to reach awsam chandertal lake.Naxt day Reach at Gramphu which is the base of Rohtang pass to reach Manali town.