My Backpacking Story to India Sept 2019 (Day 3)

My Backpacking Story to India Sept 2019 (Day 3)

Now let us talk about day 3. 

Leh Map

Our Driver, Rinjan reached at our hostel around 9.15am in the morning. On 3rd day we are just planning to sightsee around Leh to get ourselves acclimatize before we travel to another part of Ladakh which is higher altitude than Leh.

Our first location is Gurudwara Patthar Sahib.  It is a very pretty Gurudwara and they serve free food as well. We reached there around 10 am thus, we had some coffee, bhajji and sweet laddo.

Our boys having their nice meal at Gurudwara.😄😃😃

After that, we move out from the Gurudwara around 10.30am then we leave to a very beautiful place.
Let the pictures speak now.

Around 11 am we reach Sangam Point where we can see the confluence of Indus and Zanskar River.

Sangam Point

Indus river also known as Sindhu where the great Indus Valley Civilization begins which is also the lifeline of ancient cities like Harappa and Mohenjo - Daro. It originates at the confluence of the Sengge Zanbo and Gar Tsangpo rivers in Tibet. It then flows to Ladakh and merges with Zanskar River which flows to Pakistan. Zanskar river formed in the Zanskar valley with a combination of two rivers. 

These both rivers meet at Sangam Point then flows to Pakistan.

Indus river from Indus Valley on right and Zanskar river  from Zanskar Valley on the left  meet at Sangam Point where both combines and flows to Pakistan.

Alchi Monestry

We left Sangam Point around 11.15 am , then we reach at Alchi Monestry around 12.20 pm. 

This is one of the oldest monestry in Ladakh Region. There was one guide as well who was explaining about reaching Moksha and the essence behind it.

This is where the guide explained that human should do meditation to escape from birth cycle. We should remove three main character or habit to achieve Moksha which are hatred or anger represented by snake🐍  , birds for desire 🐦  and 🐖 for ignorance. That was a really fruitful explanation from the guide to be honest. It was spiritual and nice to hear the stories.

Then, we had our lunch at the Zimskhang Holiday Home restaurant. Around 2.30 pm we leave Alchi heading to our next destination which is Lamayuru. Another beautiful monestry and the journey along the way was too beautiful.

The trip to Lamayuru was super long and we get super tired because of the 3 hour plus journey from Lamayuru to Leh. Before we reach our hostel, we went to the last destination which Kargil Wall of Fame. we reach Wall of Fame at 6pm which is quite late because the entrance will be closed at 7pm but, we managed to cover the whole museum. There was 2 different part of the museum which is the outdoor and indoor section.  All the Kargil War warrior names who lost their life cited in the outdoor part and indoor section more about the history behind the war and the soldiers protected the country.

I think that's all. In the end of the day we enjoyed some nice meal at Leh town and sleep early for our next day trip. One last picture hihi :