This is a nice, quiet road to cycle that enables you to avoid all the trucks on the Kargil-Leh road for a bit if you’re heading from Zanskar to Leh. However, it’s a dead end road so you need to trek in over the Rusi La, which ain’t too easy!
Here’s our blog post for this route.
| Total KM | Stage KM | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Sapi (3,780m), camp by river. Small village with basic shop. | |
| 15 | Gentle climb to pass on decent unpaved surface. No traffic at all. | |
| 15 | Sapi La (4,397m). | |
| 25 | Descend to main road. A few paved kms but mostly unpaved. Enter first village after 12kms and continue through settlements until you hit the Kargil-Leh road. Basic shops in a number of the villages. Spectacular Shergol Gompa is a few kms before main road. | |
| 40 | Shergol (3,200m). Hit busy main road. Turn L for Kargil, R for Leh. |
| Route Summary | |
|---|---|
| Total amount climbed | 650m |
| Traffic | 4 vehicles all day. |
| Difficulty | 1 |
| When we cycled | July 2012 |
| How much we had to push | Not at all |