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Mangyu’s Hidden Heart: Snow Leopards, Rare Birds & Ancient culture
Explore the remote Mangyu Valley in Ladakh on a 9-day adventure, where elusive snow leopards roam, rare birds thrive, and ancient culture endures. A journey into one of the world’s most hidden and untouched treasures.
2 tours in 2025
MARCH2025 -
DECEMBER 2025
Leader: Dax Siana - 9 Days - Group Size Limit 7
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PRICE - 2100 USD
* Per person, shared twin room. {Contact for private}
All meals, accommodation, transportation, guide fees & national park entry included within LADAKH.
OUTLINE ITINERARY
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Day 1: Arrive in LEH & check in to acclimatise to the height.
Day 2: Depending on the guest health spend easy day doing local sightseeing in market and monasteries and birding.
Day 3: After breakfast , Drive to Mangyu valley & check in at Mangyu l. Eveing birding and exploring the village.
Days 4-7 : Stay at Mangyu lodge and everyday drive to places in search of snow leopard , other mammals like ibex, blue sheep, wolves, foxes etc and also some days for birding , great chance to encounter villages and learn culture from the locals.
Day 8: After morning safari we depart from Mangyu to Leh . Have an easy evening in Leh , chance for shopping and group final dinner , concluding our tour and feedbacks.
Day 9: Fly out from Leh .
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Accommodation and travel
Over the course of 9 days, we stay in comfortable lodges carefully chosen to enhance your experience. Enjoy delicious local cuisine while having the chance to connect with wonderful hosts who offer deeper insights into the region. All rooms come with heating, as the region receives cold temperatures and all the essentials to ensure a pleasant and relaxing stay.
Depending on the size of the group we usually travel in a comfotable minivan or a mini bus. Fuel and Driver fee is included in the package along with drinking water.
Key Species on the tour.
BIRDS - Bar-headed Goose, Ruddy Shelduck, Northern Shoveler, Mallard, Red-crested Pochard, Common Pochard, Common Merganser, Tibetan Partridge, Tibetan Snowcock, Chukar, Great Crested Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Rock Pigeon, Hill Pigeon, Tibetan Sandgrouse, Grey-bellied Cuckoo, Common Swift, Black-necked Crane, Tibetan Sand Plover, Brown-headed Gull, Whiskered Tern, Bearded Vulture, Himalayan Griffon, Golden Eagle, Upland Buzzard, Eurasian Eagle Owl, Little Owl, Eurasian Hoopoe, Eurasian Kestrel, Eurasian Hobby, Saker Falcon, Indian Golden Oriole, Eurasian Magpie, Red-billed Chough, Yellow-billed Chough, Carrion Crow, Common Raven, Ground Tit, Horned Lark, Hume's Lark, Tibetan Lark, Oriental Skylark, Eurasian Crag Martin, Barn Swallow, Common House-Martin, Tickell's Leaf Warbler, Mountain Chiffchaff, White-browed Tit-Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, White-throated Dipper, Bluethroat, White-winged Redstart, Black Redstart, Blue Rock Thrush, Desert Wheatear, Robin Accentor, Brown Accentor, House Sparrow, Black-winged Snowfinch, Blanford's Snowfinch, Citrine Wagtail, White Wagtail, Common Rosefinch, Great Rosefinch, Mongolian Finch, Plain Mountain Finch, Black-headed Mountain Finch, Twite, Red-fronted Serin, Rock Bunting
{BIRDS LESS FREQUENT IN THE SNOW SEASON }
MAMMALS : Snow Leopard, Eurasian Lynx, Tibetan Wolf, Red Fox, Wild Yak, Tibetan Wild Ass, Argali, Himalayan Ibex, Blue Sheep, Himalayan Marmot, Mountain Weasel, Large-eared Pika, Stoliczka’s Mountain Vole