A Kinnaur Lahaul Spiti Trip.
How to reach- Lahaul & spiti.
Himachal- the land of gods.(Lahaul Spiti).
In the Kinnaur, Lahaul, Pangi, Sirmaur and Kullu areas,
Harsha, travelled into the Kangra, Kulu and Lahaul areas.
The Lahaul, Spiti
and Pangi areas are largely followers of Buddhism.
Tenzin Palmo: I never really wondered about getting from London to Lahaul.
permanent dwelling places are in Kinnaur, Lahaul, Pangi and Gadderan Chamba Bharmaur.
The harsh conditions of Lahaul permit only scattered tufts of hardy grasses and shrubs to
He then told me to go to Lahaul, where I stayed for the next 18 years.
Kinnaur, Lahaul- Spiti,
Kulu, Chamba- Pangi are tribal areas which are snow bound most of the year round.
In the month of June/July,
Chham is performed in the monastery which is the most popular Chham in Lahaul.
The harsh conditions of Lahaul permit only scattered tufts of hardy grasses and shrubs to
grow, even below 4,000 metres.
Village Kardang which was once the capital of Lahaul has the most popular and the biggest monastery of the area.
Probably Hiuen Tsiang confused the two countries as Li-yul(Khotan) and Lo-u-lo(Lahaul) in his estimate of distances, admittedly derived from hearsay.
Hiuen Tsiang stated Lahaul to be 1800 or 1900 li(575 or 610 Km)
distant by road from the middle of Kiu-lu-to(Kulu).
Pashtnina goats are mostly reared in Ladakh, the Lahaul and Spiti valleys,
and the Chini valley and its neighbouring areas of Himachal Pradesh.