7 days trip itinerary of Skardu Baltistan. The best combination to explore the top tourist spots within 7 day. Before going for planning, a tourist must know the basic and key information about trip to Skardu.
Itinerary of skardu
Day 1 (Skardu arrival and explore the city)
- Arrival at Skardu City
- Arrival at Skardu Airport 11:00
- Moving to hotel
- Take a bath of blood freezing cold water and lunch
- Evening at Kharpocho Fort (Famous for Skardu View point and sun set view)
- Jeep booking for next day trip to Khaplu valley before going for dinner
- Sleep early and start next day journey timely
Day 2 (Khaplu Valley)
- Ideally, the journey should begins at 06:00 from Skardu
- ‘Balghar Soq’ which comes along the way (stay time 2 hours)
- Fish farms of Barah valley, comes along the way (1 hours Stay)
- Checked-in Khaplu at 12:00
- Choose a hotel and take lunch
- Take a bath of cold spring water and drink couple of galss
- Chaqchan Mosque (14:00 t0 15:30 stay time)
- Yabgo Fort (14:00 to 22:00 stay time with Dinner in Serena hotel)
- Back to hotel
Day 3 (khaplu valley, land of glaciers)
- Jeep track from Khaplu to Hushe (4 hours travelling)
- More than 10 stunning bridges comes alongs the way
- Checked-in time at Hushe valley 10:00
- Stay time at Mashabrum peak (K1) view point Hushe is 4 hours.
- Return time is 13:00 after lunch
- Saling Spangtoq (Saling lake, Khaplu view point) at 14:30
- Boating, trout fishing, evening tea, sun set and some fun at Saling valley.
- Back to Khaplu city at 20:00 for dinner
Day 4 (Kharmang, home of warerfalls)
- Way back from Khaplu to Kharmang
- Khamosh waterfall (expected time to reach 11:00)
- Then Manthoka waterfall
- Lunch at Manthoka waterfall
- A complete day is required to enjoy these two tourist spots
- Travel Kharmang to Shigar directly, good time to check in Shigar is 18:00
- Choose a hotel to stay, Enjoy the night in galaxies
Day 5 (Shigar valley)
- Shigar fort (need atleast 3 hours to explore)
- Hashopi Bagh for pure fruits and nature
- Explore Shigar valley
- Explore Blink Lake (Jarba Tso) Shigar (Unexplored)
- Return back to Skardu
- Night stay of day 5 in Skardu and try some desi foods and hang around in open sky
Day 6 (Explore Skardu city)
- Katpana Cold desert Skardu (just after breakfast, 8:00 to 10:00)
- Upper Kachura lake; swimming, boating, cliff-diving and soulfull meditation
- Shangrila resort (Lower kachura lake), Boating, dinner on lake side
- Chomik (these destination to cover till 13:00)
- Move towards Deosai, and ideal time to reach 16:00
- Select a camping point, have some deep breath and enjoy night
- Night photograpy of glaxies and musical night
Day 7 (Explore Deosai plain)
- 1 week is even not enough to explore Deosai, but will be grapping key points only
- Sheosar lake, Burzil or Murtaza top (Both can’t be possible to cover in single day)
- Meadows, lakes and rivers
- try to find out a BROWN BEAR 🙂
- Will move to Chillim before sun set
- Night stay in Astore
- To reach Gilgit Airport at 9:30 to wrap up the journey