5D/4NHampta Pass Trek
Manali → Jobra → Balu → Chatru
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3–7 Oct 20265 seats left

Himachal Pradesh, India
Deodar forest, the Beas running loud through town, and a wall of Pir Panjal snow at the head of the valley. Manali is where most Himalayan journeys begin.
Fixed dates, live seat counts, run by our own leaders.
5D/4NManali → Jobra → Balu → Chatru
3–7 Oct 20265 seats left
Manali sits at roughly 2,050 m in the upper Kullu valley, where the Beas narrows and the deodar closes in. Old Manali and Vashisht keep the slow, cafe-lined character travellers come for; Solang and Sethan open the alpine ground above it.
It is also the practical trailhead for the Pir Panjal — Hampta, Bhrigu, Beas Kund — and the southern end of the Manali–Leh highway. Our departures use Manali as an acclimatisation base rather than a checkbox: a night in the valley before anything gains height.
When to go. May and June for high meadows still holding snow. September and October for clear post-monsoon air and quiet trails. December to February for snow in the valley itself.



Photographs of Manali by their creators — photo credits.
Rohit Menon
Camp craft and food were both better than I expected — hot dinner at 3,600 m every night. Take the sleeping bag liner seriously; the second night was properly cold. Only reason this isn't five stars is the drive back took three hours longer than planned after a landslide clearance near Gramphu.
Ananya Deshpande
I had done exactly one trek before this and was worried I'd hold the group up. The leader set a pace that made that impossible to worry about. Coming over Hampta and seeing Lahaul open up on the other side is the single best hour I have spent walking anywhere.