📍 Trek🪂 Adventure📍 Nature

Chadar Trek (Frozen Zanskar River)

Chilling, Ladakh, India

4.7 (0)

Overview

The legendary January walk on the frozen Zanskar — turquoise ice sheets, wave-frozen gorges and cave camps at −25°C.

Why visit: India's most epic winter adventure, while it lasts.

Things to do

›Ice-sheet walking
›Nerak frozen falls
›Cave bivouacs
›Gorge cathedrals

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Travel Information

Best time

Mid-Jan–mid-Feb

Entry fee

Permits + package

Est. budget

₹25,000–45,000

Duration

6–9 days

Nearby attractions

Within

6.7 km

🪂 Adventure

4.5

Chilling & Zanskar River Rafting

Chilling, Ladakh

The copper-smiths' hamlet at the Zanskar gorge mouth — put-in for India's most spectacular rafting run down to the Nimmu sangam.

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21.3 km

🌄 Viewpoint

4.4

Magnetic Hill & Sangam (Indus-Zanskar Confluence)

Nimmu, Ladakh

The gravity-teasing slope of the Srinagar highway and, just beyond, the two-tone meeting of the green Indus and grey Zanskar at Nimmu.

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21.3 km

📍 Trek

4.7

Markha Valley Trek

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Jun–Sep5–7 daysExplore

22.6 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Monastery

4.7

Alchi Choskor (11th-century Murals)

Alchi, Ladakh

The low riverside temple complex holding the Himalaya's finest early murals — Kashmiri-style mandalas untouched for 900 years.

May–SepHalf dayExplore

23.7 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Fort

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Basgo Fort & Maitreya Temples

Basgo, Ladakh

Eroded citadel towers of the old Namgyal capital, sheltering three gold-faced Maitreya temples of world-monument fame.

May–Sep1–2 hrsExplore

23.8 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Cave

4.1

Saspol Caves & Wanla Gompa

Saspol, Ladakh

Painted meditation caves in the cliffs opposite Alchi and the three-storey Avalokiteshvara tower of Wanla up the Yapola gorge.

May–SepHalf dayExplore