Morning rest. After breakfast meet with your escort for tour briefing.  Afternoon tour of Old & New Delhi including a rickshaw  ride through old Delhi’s  Chandni Chowk bazaar.  Welcome dinner at a specialty Indian Restaurant.

Early morning transfer to New Delhi Train Station to board Shatabdi Express to Chandigarh. ETD 0740 hr/ ETA 1110 hr.  Drive onward to Shimla. We’ll stop for lunch.  Arrive in Shimla late afternoon. Evening free to roam on the Mall. Explore its wonderful colonial past of this Queen of hill stations.

Drive to Kalpa. It is the headquarter of Kinnaur. It boasts of the best view that one can have of the mighty  Kinner Kailash Range of the Greater Himalaya.  Rising from its base till the top 19848ft of sheer rock.  Arrive in time for lunch at your hotel Kinner Villa. Afternoon walk the Old Hindustan Tibet Road to Roghi Village, considered one among the top ten mountain walks in the entire world. Overnight at the beautiful Kinner Villa,

Full day reserved for walking to the ancient and exquisite villages Chini, Peo, Kothi, Pangi and Telangi..  Overnight at Kinner Villa.

Visit Nako subject to road connectivity or else we drive from Kalpa direct to Tabo. The village of Nako lies at an altitude of 11890 Ft, high above the vast stretch of Spiti Valley. It was once a very important centre of Buddhism in the region. There are seven temples belonging to different periods of Buddhism between 11th and 12th centuries distributed all over the village, including a monastic complex on its western edge. Boasting four temples and a number of additional buildings, this complex preserves the earliest artistic heritage. The austere and unornamented exteriors of the buildings give little hint of its important artistic and spiritual legacy that lies within these walls.

Today is the day for the highest. The first highest road connected village in Asia Kibber, the highest vehicle fuel outlet in the world at Kaza, the highest oldest monastery that houses the oldest and largest collection of Tankha paintings in the world ?KI?.

Rise up at leisure. Easy day of strolling around the picturesque valley of the Gods, Manali and Naggar.   Visit Dhungri Temple (also known as Hadimba Temple by locals)and the quaint village Nagar with its many ancient temples including the 11th-12th century Temple Gauri and the Tripura Sundri Devi Temple.

Drive through Kullu to Kangra, valley of Temples. We visit the most ancient and oldest existing Shiva temples  at Baijnath. Overnight at the Taragarh Palace.

A spectacular location with the Dhauladhars towering behind with its peaks between 9500Ft – 16000 Ft which are clearly visible from here. Baijnath (5 Km) is a pleasant little  town surrounded by tea plantations. It houses one of the oldest  existing Shiva temple. Just below the village is the Tashijong Gompa which is  the focus of a small Tibetan community who hail from Kham province in Tibet.  We will then visit the Sherab Ling monastery for the Grammy winning monks who got their award  for chanting in 2003 ‘ Winner for Best Traditional World Music Album’. Sherab Ling Monastery nestles in the gentle pine-forested foothills of northern India’s Kangra Valley, the seat of its founder His Eminence Ti Situpa XII, a leading Tibetan Buddhist  teacher and peace campaigner. Here the monks perform  mesmerising prayer ceremonies, as part of their daily lives, originating many centuries ago in the great Buddhists monasteries of Tibet. The monks begin their day with the Lineage Prayer, offering respect to a line of great meditation practitioners going back as far as the 7th century. The Mahakala Ceremony is part of each day’s closing ritual in which the monks ask for purification and dedicate their blessings to all sentient creatures. Return to the Taragarh Palace for the overnight.

Independent morning walk to Dalai Lama’s monastery to attend monks puja; afterwards (parikrama) circum ambulate the monastery complex along with the locals. Return to hotel for breakfast.  After breakfast, drive to Amritsar.  After lunch we visit the Golden Temple the sanctum sanctorum of the Sikhs.  We will circum ambulate the temple, stopping periodically for moments of quiet reflection.  The temple is like a small community filled with many different activities.  We will visit the community kitchen where free meals ‘Langar’ are prepared by volunteers throughout the day; the temple where the holy book the “Guru Granth Sahib”  is read aloud 24/7non-stop; observe devotional rituals.