Luxury Nubra Valley Tours

A high-altitude desert valley beyond Khardung La, known for sand dunes and Bactrian camels.

A camel ride across the sand dunes of Nubra Valley, Ladakh

Overview

Nubra Valley At A Glance

Nubra Valley sits beyond Khardung La, one of the highest motorable passes in the region. The Shyok and Nubra rivers meet here, leaving sand dunes across the valley floor. Double-humped Bactrian camels, a legacy of old Silk Road trade routes, still cross the dunes today. A private guide and driver handle the long mountain crossing, so the day stays comfortable.

Where To Stay: Lchang Nang Retreat — The House of Trees
Continue To: Kargil, Leh, Pangong Lake

What To See

What To See In Nubra Valley

Nubra Valley's real highlights are what a private guide builds each day around.

spiritual

Diskit Monastery

The oldest and largest monastery in Nubra Valley, with a 32-metre statue of the Maitreya Buddha facing the Shyok river.

Nature / Wildlife

Hunder Sand Dunes

A stretch of white cold-desert dunes on the Nubra valley floor, worked by double-humped Bactrian camels left from the Silk Road.

Nature / Wildlife · 30–60 minutes, afternoon

Bactrian Camel Safari, Hunder

A short ride on a double-humped Bactrian camel across the white dunes of the Nubra valley floor.

Riders on double-humped Bactrian camels crossing the Hunder dunes of Nubra Valley, a descendant tradition of the old Silk Route caravans.

How To Travel

Journeys Through Nubra Valley

Every journey comes with a private guide and driver for each day on the road. Full details live on each journey's own page.

A broad sheet of high-altitude water lies cupped by range upon range of raw Himalayan mountains in Ladakh.

13 Nights

Slow Ladakh

Leh · Nubra Valley · Pangong Lake · Sham Valley · Tso Moriri

Camels rest on the sand dunes of the Nubra Valley beneath Ladakh's mountains.

13 Nights

Kashmir & Ladakh Grand Traverse

Srinagar · Kargil · Leh · Nubra Valley · Pangong Lake

A wide empty valley runs toward successive ranges of bare Ladakhi mountains fading into the distance.

12 Nights

Ladakh Photography: Lakes & Light

Leh · Nubra Valley · Pangong Lake · Sham Valley · Tso Moriri

The turquoise water of Pangong Tso lies against bare brown mountains in Ladakh, India.

11 Nights

Kashmir & Ladakh Photography Expedition

Srinagar · Kargil · Leh · Nubra Valley · Pangong Lake

A lone road runs dead straight into a vast amphitheatre of bare Ladakh mountains, the scale of the high desert dwarfing everything on it.

9 Nights

Ladakh Photography Expedition

Leh · Nubra Valley · Pangong Lake

The electric-blue expanse of Pangong Tso ringed by snow-dusted mountains under a deep azure Ladakh sky.

7 Nights

Ladakh Family Adventure

Leh · Nubra Valley · Pangong Lake

The electric blue water of Pangong Tso stretches between bare ochre mountains under a clear Ladakh sky.

6 Nights

Ladakh Leh–Nubra–Pangong Express

Leh · Nubra Valley · Pangong Lake

Where To Stay

Where To Stay In Nubra Valley

Stays are chosen for the setting and the service, then matched to the pace of your route.

resort · luxury

Lchang Nang Retreat — The House of Trees

★★★★★

Lchang Nang means the House of Trees. It is a small retreat on the bank of the Nubra river, near Sumur, set in a garden of poplar and willow. There are 17 cottages, built by local masons from mud, stone and poplar wood, in the Ladakhi way. They are warm, simple and quiet, with wide windows onto the river and the dunes. The retreat runs on solar power for most of the year. Food comes largely from its own garden and from Nubra farms. There is no bar and no pool. The point is the setting. It is a member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World and is owned by a Nubra family. It is the natural luxury base for the Nubra leg of a Ladakh trip, and the reason to give Nubra two nights rather than one.

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