A reflective high-altitude journey through Ladakh
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Explore Ladakh beyond sightseeing through monasteries, mountain passes, high-altitude landscapes, villages, and night skies that shift your sense of scale.
Experience Tibetan Buddhist wisdom through monastery visits, conversations, meditation, mandala philosophy, and ideas of impermanence, interdependence, and letting go.
Create your own reflective mandala as a symbolic map of identity, memory, roles, attachments, fears, values, and transformation.
Live the rhythm of Ladakhi life through village immersion, local homes, shared meals, everyday practices, and conversations with local communities.
Move through an inward journey of slowing down, observing, questioning, gaining perspective, and releasing what no longer needs to be carried.
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- Arrival in Leh
- Acclimatisation and altitude briefing
- Opening circle + intention setting
- Explore Leh Palace
- Experience Thiksey Monastery
- Session on impermanence, attachment, and Buddhist philosophy
- Sunset at Shanti Stupa
- Mandala Layer 1: Build your identity
- Travel to Rumbak Village
- Village immersion with local families
- Mandala Layer 2: Question it
- Return to Leh via Alchi
- Explore Alchi / monastery stop
- Magnetic Hill; outdoor activities
- Leh Market
- Mandala Layer 3: See beyond it
- Drive to Hanle
- Experience remote high-altitude landscapes
- Stargazing under some of the clearest skies in Ladakh
- Mandala Layer 4: What remains?
- Return journey to Leh
- Visit Tso Moriri Lake
- Explore Puga Valley
- Cross Tanglang La Pass
- Closing circle
- Departures from Leh
- End of the expedition
Travel through Ladakh not just as a tourist, but as an observer. This journey is designed to help you slow down, notice more deeply, and experience the place with intention.
Engage with ideas of impermanence, interdependence, attachment, and symbolic cosmology through monastery experiences, conversations, and guided learning moments.
Create a personal mandala across the journey using colours, sketch pens, pens, and paper. It is not about being artistic. It is about mapping what shapes you, what you carry, and what remains beneath it all.
Spend time in Ladakhi homes and villages, sharing meals, stories, local practices, and everyday rhythms that reveal a slower, more grounded way of living.
Move through mountains, lakes, passes, hot springs, valleys, and night skies that remind you how small you are, and how freeing that can feel.
We keep the group intentionally intimate, around 12-15 people, so the experience feels personal, safe, and spacious.
Stay for 6 nights / 7 days across Leh and on-route stays selected to balance comfort, safety, and local immersion.
All breakfasts during the expedition, along with a few meals included as part of curated experiences and the final itinerary.
A curated Ladakhi village experience including local activities, lunch, dinner, bonfire, and spend time with the community.
Comfortable local transport for the full expedition, as per the group itinerary, including long drives in Innova Crystas.
Monastery visits and learning sessions, including interactions with monks and a generational mandala teacher.
A stargazing experience with dinner at Hanle, known for some of the clearest night skies in the world.
Facilitated mandala sessions by TEC, designed as a reflective practice across the journey.
Mandala creation materials, including colours, sketch pens, pens, and sheets, along with refreshments, merchandise, TEC goodies, and on-ground coordination.
Oxygen cylinders, First-aid kit and Inner Line Permits wherever applicable.
Flights, trains, or any travel required to reach Leh and return from Leh.
Travel insurance or medical insurance. This is strongly recommended, especially because Ladakh is a high-altitude region.
Meals, snacks, beverages, cafe stops, or extra food outside the planned itinerary.
SIM cards, shopping, laundry, tips, room service, bottled beverages, phone/internet charges, or any other personal purchases.
Any stay before or after the expedition dates.
Any transport taken independently outside the group itinerary for personal reasons.
Optional activities or experiences not included in the final itinerary.
Additional costs arising due to weather, road closures, flight delays, altitude-related concerns, health issues, or changes in government/local regulations.