Exploring the Spiti Valley, India (09/2018)

Kye Monastery in the Spiti Valley

After four days of driving, we finally reached our destination: Kaza, the administrative capital of the Spiti Valley.

In the following days, we conducted field work in the mountains along the Spiti Valley. This enabled us to visit small villages and remote monasteries. We also had the chance to see some of the magnificent wildlife of the Spiti Valley, for example, groups of ibex and blue sheep. Unfortunately, the weather was rather bad with common rain showers and occasionally cold wind. In any case, we had a fantastic time in this spectacular region of the Indian Himalayas.

mountain scenery on the way to Langza

Langza

restaurant in Komic (~4587 m)

monastery building in Komic

reaching the end of the road

Tangyud Monastery in Komic

stuffed snow leopard in the monastery

mountain scenery

scary road

view towards Kaza

the opposite mountainside

Kaza in the Spiti Valley

view along the Spiti Valley

rain in the Spiti Valley

mountain scenery

Kaza

scenery near Chichim

tiny Chichim village

new bridge connecting Chichim and Kibber

a group of Ibex

Hikkim

mountain scenery

stupas in Kaza

Spiti Valley

pass on the road to Demul

view from the pass

Chichim

mountain scenery

Blue Sheep

After we finished our work, we left the Spiti Valley taking the extremely bumpy road north to Keylong and Leh.

2 responses to “Exploring the Spiti Valley, India (09/2018)”

Beautiful scenery and I love seeing Ibex and blue sheep on the photos. It looks like they are posing:)

matt-travels April 12, 2019 at 8:22 pm · · Reply →

Thanks so much for your comment!! 🙂 The Himalayas are a really unbelievable place and spotting wildlife is always fantastic – especially with the impressive mountains as the background!