Trekking in Sangla Valley
Concealed in the south-eastern corner of Himachal Pradesh lies the Sangla Valley, part of the locale of Kinnaur. The Valley, otherwise called the Baspa Valley, has been known as the `most delightful valley in the Himalayas'. In spite of the fact that the rankled inhabitants of innumerable different valleys over the mountains may dissent, there is certainly some defense for the case. Extending for 95 km, the Sangla Valley is watered by the Baspa waterway, which meets the Satluj at Karcham, and by a few littler streams and springs. The initial 18 km of the valley are genuinely limited, with cedar, chilgoza pine and bhojpatra trees covering the inclines on either side. At Kupa, in any case, the valley opens up and enlarges into an extraordinarily dazzling vale, dabbed with a beautiful as-a-photo towns, straight up to Chitkul, past which residence is nearly nil. The Sangla Valley extends crosswise over what was at one time an ice sheet moraine yet is today a lovely swathe of green, overshadowed by the encompassing mountains. The reasonable waters of the Baspa keep running between plantations of apple and apricot, through towns where the houses have dazzlingly cut wooden entryways and steeply slanted slate rooftops; a region so amazingly exquisite that the locals really say this is the place the divine beings live. A week of trekking through the Sangla Valley and you very well might wind up agreeing.



