It suddenly hit me after noticing that no major trekking companies run the Zanskar trek anymore; it is too complicated for them to run. A Zanskar itinerary must be adapted year after year, and that is work a head office cannot be bothered with. We, on the other hand, roll with this... Hence the Zanskar Canyons after a Gaye didn't find a trek within her constraints. It is a marriage of the
Kanji Canyons and our Zanskar trek, a totally wonderful late season itinerary. This trek and the (full) Zanskar Traverse are, in all honesty, obituaries for the Shingo La too, the once very popular route into the upper Zanskar valley. In a year or two, a road will cross the pass and link into Zanskar proper (ie Padum) and in an instant become the best cycling route ever. And that is on my list already!
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