Green valley under Nun Kun
The Suru valley is Ladakh's unexpected garden — barley fields and willow lines watered by the Suru river, all beneath the twin 7,000 m giants Nun and Kun. Drive it en route to Zanskar and you pass glacier snouts almost touching the road, Balti villages, and the carved 7th-century Buddha at Kartse Khar.
Plan my Suru Valley trip7,135 m Nun and its twin dominate every southern view.
The Shafat and Parkachik ice falls tumble nearly to the tarmac.
Panikhar and Parkachik — Ladakh at its most pastoral.
A 7-metre Maitreya carved into rock thirteen centuries ago.
June–September, as part of the Kargil–Zanskar road journey.
Leh → Khardung La → Pangong (day trips)
Leh → Alchi → Nubra → Pangong → Leh
Leh → Nubra → Leh → Pangong → Leh