Pin Parvati Trek
Description
Tour Plan
Description
Pin Parvati Pass connects Parvati Valley of Kullu to Pin Valley in Spiti. The journey starts from Kullu and ends in Manali. The exciting part of this trek is that trekking starts from driving to Barsheni Village from Kullu. This pass gives a striking view on one side of a colorful hue of mountains flanked by the snowy peaks and the barren Spiti valley on the other. While trekking from Pin valley, the trek way you will find Pin Valley National Park and Great Himalayan nationalized Park which are well known all over the world for snow leopards and Himalayan birds respectively. Continuing the trek to biggest pin valley in HimachalTrekkers also explore few ancient Buddhist monasteries of the region.
One needs to be extremely fit and very well prepared for this trek.
One needs to be extremely fit and very well prepared for this trek.
Tour Plan
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Day 1: Manali to Barsheni (2400 m) 4 hours drive 100 km/ Trek to Khir Ganga (2960 m) (4 hours)
From Manali start drive to Manikaran. Then drive another 7 km. to Barsheni.Trek to Kalga village a small clearing in the thick pine forest, through the misty and heavily wooded unexplored forests of the Kullu valley. Then trek through the forest to Khir ganga.
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Day 2: Khir Ganga to Tundabhuj (3285m) (5-6 hours)
Today after breakfast start trekking through thebeautiful forest. Tunda Bhuz is the upper limit for the pine forest and there is an abundance of Bhuz(Birch)trees. Camp at lush green campsite.
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Day 3: Tundabhuj to Thakurkuan (3560m) (5- 6 hours)
Today is one of the challenging day of the trek , as the trek is steep and difficult in some section close to Thakurkuan.This area lies within the Kanawar wild life sanctuary so it’s also possible that you might meet amazing wildlife like Snow leopards.
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Day 4: Thakurkuan to Pandu Pul. (3700mts.) 5hrs.
Today is also a little hard yet spectacular trekking day. There is some unique rock bridges. Due to these bridges its name is Pandu Pul( bridge) a grassy camp site.
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Day 5: Pandu Pul to Mantalaie Lake.(4074mts.) 5hrs.
Trek to Mantalaie lake through the flower speckled grasslands. There is abundance of quartz and semi precious gems around here. Picking up rock souvenirs from here is not allowed overnight camp.
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Day 6: Mantalaie to Base camp of Pin Parvati Pass. (4500mts.) 6hrs.
Trek through the glacier and loose scree slopes, yes trekking is challenging but beautiful sights & grassy campsite make it worthy.
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Day 7: Base camp to Cross the Pin Parvati Pass(5319mts) to the another side of the base camp(4500mts.) 6 hrs.
This pass is difficult to trek and snow fields make it more difficult . After the pass descends over asteep scree slops to reach first camp in Pin valley.
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Day 8: Base camp to Ghurgul (4000mts.) 4hrs.
A short walk after crossing the challenging Pin Parvati pass is a very spectacular walk changing the landscape with high snow clad mountain peaks. Overnight camp at grassy camp site.
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Day 9: Ghurgul to Mud (3600mts.) 4hrs.
Today we will get to the first village in Spiti.A village which is one of its kind and is set a below a cliff and inhabitant by simple folk of Tibetan stock.This is the last night of the trek.
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Day 10:Mud to Sagnam(3753mts. Then to Kaza((3810mts.) 6 hrs.
Trek from Mud to Sagnam.The largest village of the beautiful pin valley . From Sagnam start your drive to Kaza by surface transportation.
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Day 11: Kaza to Manali. (9hrs.)
Drive Kaza to Manali over the Kunzum pass (4530mts.) or stay in Kaza and explore the spiti for few days.
