Spiti Backpacking - Exclusive Escape

Spiti doesn't care about your comfort zone. At 4,000 metres, in a valley so remote it's cut off from India for six months every winter, you'll find yourself in a cold desert where Buddhist monasteries cling to cliff faces and rivers run turquoise through gorges carved over millennia. This backpacking trip enters Spiti via the Kinnaur route — the dramatic road that threads through the deepest gorge in the Himalayas along the Sutlej river, past the rock tunnel locals call "Kinnaur Gate." You'll sleep in village homestays where your host's grandmother remembers when there were no roads at all. You'll stand in the 1,000-year-old Tabo Monastery and realize the murals on the wall are older than most European countries. Budget? Yes. Compromise on experience? Not a chance.