Himalaya India Trekking Tours

The Tour Itinerary:

Day 1- DelhiI/Musoorie 1921 mts
Arrive at Delhi Airport and transfer to Mussoorie (325 K.M). The road winds up to Mussoorie, a beautiful summer resort. Overnight stay.

Day -2 Musoorie
Full Day explore the Mussoorie. Overnight stay..

Day -3 Musoorie- Uttarkashi 1150 mts.
after early breakfast drive to Uttarkashi. The drive along the edge line to Chamba, affords panoramic views of the high mountain peaks of Garhwal Region. Then upto Gangotri you will follow Bhagirathi River. Overnight stay.

Day -4 Uttarkashi -Gangotri 3048 mts.
Drive 5 hours (100 kms). Following the driving river upstream, the road winds up the valley past the hot sulphur springs at Gangnani, to climb suddenly up a seizes of hairpin bends to the village of Sukki. Overnight stay.

Day -5 Gangotri
The Day is spent exploring this place of pilgrimage. Thousands of Pilgrims arrive here in summer to wash away their sins in the holy Ganga, it is said that Lord Shiva sat at the base of this fall to take the Ganga into his locks, for otherwise her descent from the heavens would have split the earth. Overnight in hotel/tourist bunglow.

Day -6 Gangotri-Chirbasa or Bhojbasa 3350 mts.
An easy walk (13 KMS TREK). The wide trail initially passes through dense deodar forests before promising into the wide unfrosted valley. It then carries on to a small inaccessible jungle of pine at Chirbases, exactly the abode of pines. Camp on a grassy meadow beside the Bhagirathi.

Day -7 Bhojbasa - Gaumukh 3850 mts.
Ongoing along the pilgrim grassy hillsides. Trail then curves, to unfold a wonderful view of wild flowers studded meadows crown by the Bhagirathi group of peaks Camp on a wide sandy beach at Gaumukh, where the holy Ganga gush out of the snout of the Gangotri glacier, is set in a wide moraine-stream valley Shivling 6540 m, sits looking down like an old cultured man, while the Bhagirathi I, II and III tower above.
Trek time : 5 hours, 4 KMS.

Day -8 Gaumukh-Tapovan 4350 mts.
the trail leaves its way through the terminal moraine before wounding across the Gangotri glacier and climbing suddenly up to the grassy slopes to the vast ablation valley of Tapowan. The vast meadows strewn with wild flowers are situated at the base of Shivling. The Bhagirathi peaks are now almost within touching distance. Camp is set in the heart of high mountains country for 3 nights.
Trek time: 5 hours, 5 KMS TREK.

Day -9 Tapovan- Kirti Bamak- Tapovan
A full Days walk to the Kirti Bamak glacier and to the base of peaks Kedarnath Dome 6850 m, Kirti Bamak 6500 m and to a view of Shivling from the east. Return to camp.
Trek time: 6 hours, 7 KMS TREK.

Day -10 Tapovan-Meru Glacier-Tapovan 4800 mts.
one more full Days walk. Crossing the meadows of Tapowan the trail climbs into another ablation valley, which is followed to the base of Mt. Meru 6400 m - yet another of the spectacular Garhwal peaks, it's mythical name is "The mountain of Gold". Return to camp.


Day -11 Tapovan-Nandavan 4570 mts
This Day is largely an exercise is boulder hopping. Crossing the moraine covered Gangotri glacier to Nandawan located at the coming together of the Chaturangi and the Gangotri glaciers. Literally meaning the four colored glacier. The Chaturangi is truly multi-hued. The massive meadows of Nandavan are situated at the base of the Bhagirathi massif. The area provides excellent sightings of Bharal (blue sheep). Overnight in camp.

Day- 12 Nandavan-Vasuki Tal 4800 mts.
A full Days walk to the picturesque Vasuki tal lake. The trail follows a grassy ridge running parallel to the Chaturangi glaciers, across a small glacier windswept valley to Vasuki tal. It then continues along the lateral moraine of the Chaturangi glacier to views of Mt. Satopanth. Return to camp. Overnight stay.

Day 13 Nandavan-Gaumukh
Another boulder hop along the Gangotri glacier to its snout at Gangotri.
Trek time : 5 hours, 13 KMS TREK.

Day -14 Gaumukh-GangotriI/Uttarkashi
go back over steps to Gangotri. Drive to Uttarkashi. Overnight in camp or Tourist huts.

Day - 15 UttarkashiI- Rishikesh
After breakfast at Resorts drive t Rishikesh. Evening Enjoy Ganga Aarti. Overnight stay.

Day - 16 Rishikesh/DelhiI
After breakfast drive to Delhi.