SAR PASS Trekking in Parwati Valley

Overview

The SAR Pass trek is ideally poised to be the first step in your life-long love affair with the mountains. SAR, in local dialect, means a lake. While hiking across the path from Nagaru to Biskeri Ridge somewhere high up in the Parvati Valley, one passes by a small, (normally) frozen lake, which gives this trail its name. The distance is generally covered in five days, with the base camp at Kasol, a small and beautiful village located around the picturesque union of the Parvati River and a vibrant stream called the Grahan Nalla, which gets its name from the first campsite of this trek. Grahan (altitude 7700 ft), a calm and serene village amidst the mighty mountains is 10 km from Kasol and takes around 4 hours to reach. It is a self contained village of sixty families with electricity, water and phone connection.

We strongly suggest you to use our email address info@adventureindiagroup.com for sending your queries directly to us. It is less time consuming than using booking forms. 
You can give missed call at 919736102222 and our office will call you back if you can't send email. 

Cost: $590 (group price) Duration 08 Days Departure   05 January Group Size Click Here Tour difficulty Moderate Customize your date & price:

Trip Cost in USD

Hotels Places

Our Trekking cost includes

Transportation

- International airport to hotel in Delhi transfer by small coach/ medium or large cars as per the group size
- Sightseeing/ monument visits as per the itinerary
- Delhi to trek beginning point and back to Delhi transfers
- Transfer to international airport in Delhi after the trip
- Transportation of porters, cook, kitchen staff to trek beginning point and back to their places after the trekking

Accommodation – city hotels with breakfast & remaining on full board

- Hotels as per the program
- Trekking duration camps with all meals
- Gala dinner at Delhi with expedition mementoes/ souvenirs

Staff

- Porters for the trekking part
- Cook and kitchen helper (01)
- Trekking guide (01) from trek beginning point to trek end point
- Local sightseeing/ city/ monument guide

Equipment

- Trekking tents for the members
- Trekking tent for cook+ helper and trekking guide
- Ground mattresses
- Kitchen tent, chairs, tables, stools, utensils, crockery and cutlery
- Toilet tents and toiletries
- Medical kit
- Maps and directions

Administrative assistance to the expedition team

- Cargo Management for big groups
- Insurance of the staff and porters for trekking trips like Kangla Pass
- Inner Line permits/ restricted area permits

The cost doesn’t include

- Air tickets of the expedition members
- Any kind of insurance of the clients
- Personal expenditures of the clients
- Helicopter rescue
- Personal sleeping bags and sacs
- Cargo handling charges

Skiing supplement

- If you want to ski down from some point, you can write separately.

You can check our another wesbite www.15peaks.com too for the similar tours 

Day 01: Delhi to Kullu by air and drive to Kasol. Kasol is about 30 Kms from the airport in the Parvati Valley of Kullu, close to Manikaran, the site of Sikh pilgrimage and hot water springs. Kasol is surrounded by wonderful forests and off course a small but beautiful Himalayan hamlet. HOTEL

Day 02: Kasol to Grahan. Grahan is the last inhabited place that you will camp at on this trek. It is a beautiful Himalayan village located at 7700 ft above sea level, overlooking step farms and alpine trees. As is the case with most villages in Himachal, this one is also connected with power supply and is a good place to charge batteries etc. The people are friendly and many inhabitants work as trekking guides during season. The total walk is around 6 hours. CAMP

Day 03: Grahan to Ming Thatch. Today’s hike is through thick alpine forests to a large meadow by the name of Ming Thatch. All along the trail are spectacular views of the snow covered Himalayan peaks. The gradient is steep but the distance covered is lesser. Total hiking time should be less than 4 hours for most people. CAMP

Day 04: Ming Thatch to Nagaru. This is a longish day that takes you well beyond the tree line to a height of 12000 ft or thereabouts. Nagaru is a high altitude camping site that is prone to high wind speeds and gives a fine bird’s eye view of the valley below. The total hiking time on this day is approximately 6-7 hours. CAMP

Day 05: Nagaru to Bishkeri Thatch via SAR Pass. This is the most challenging day of the trek as also the most rewarding. You need to start very early, for 2 reasons: If there’s still enough snow on the trail near the pass, it makes sense to cross it before the snow melts under the hot sunrays and becomes slippery. Secondly, the distance to be covered on the day is long and it is wise to start early so that we can account for bad weather, tiredness, slow speed etc. and reach the camp well in time. Bishkeri is a great treat for the eyes, being a beautiful meadow surrounded by peaks and forests on all sides. Total hiking time on this day is 10-11 hours. CAMP

Day 06: Bishkeri Thatch to Pulga (Trek) and Pulga to Kullu drive. The remaining trek is cakewalk, descending all the way to Pulga through the forests and along streams, with thicker air and pleasant weather. At Pulga, the hike ends and you can reach back Kullu by car. HOTEL APPLE VALLEY or JJ RESORTS

Day 07: Fly Kullu- Delhi

Day 08: Fly out

Essential Information for climbing & trekking
We strongly suggest you to use our email address info@adventureindiagroup.com for sending your queries directly to us. It is less time consuming than using booking forms. 
You can give missed call at 919736102222 and our office will call you back if you can't send email. 
 
Getting there: Your nearest international airport is Delhi where you will meet with our expedition manager. After essential visits to IMF and cargo (if required), you will be escotrted towards the initial point of your adventure as per the program details.
After the expedition/ adventure journey, you arrive back to Delhi. After de briefing (in case of expedition) and farewell ceremony, you will be driven to international airport to board flight back to your home.

Airtickets: We have our partners in almost every foreign countries, so if you need any assistance in your air tickets bookings, you are always welcome to speak to us to know about our partner close to you.

Cargo Management: We have strong tieups with the cargo management companies to get your consignments clear timely in Delhi. In maximum cases, you will only need to spend just 2 hours for getting your consignmwent delivery. Once you send the documents and the boxes details, we start locating them in India.

Insurance : It is a condition of joining our trips that you must be adequately insured. All persons are expected to arrange their own insurance. Polices should cover any potential risks involved in such adventure.

Our hotels and camps: We offer you best economy hotels in cities and towns and till base camp we provide you very comfirtable tents with maximim possible faciltiies in the mountains. For the trekking, Jeep Safaris, MTB and other adventure journeys, we provide the most luxurious camps fitted with dining areas and modren toilet facilities.

Adventure India briefing: We have excelent maps, images and movies of majoriety of our adventure expeditions/ joiurneys and sports. A short briefing in our offices is highly recommended so the team understands logistics, forecarst problems and know where the solutions would be. We stress on planning, planning and planning in any adventure expediton and till now we have remained successful in all of our expeditions just because of our planning. So we need you to be an active part of it.

Rescue and helicopter evacuation: if the expeditons are well planned, rescue operations can be avoided. In the history of 14 years, we didn’t encounter any seviour requireemtn of rescue but still we can tie up with the agencies to provide helicopter evacuation on your request and willingness to pay the charges.
 
Peak booking formalities: already mentioned in detail in our mountaineering formalities in India link. For necessary applications either you can check the website of IMF or speak to us.

Ground transportation: We provide the ground transportation compriseing of best available cars/ copaches in fine roads and rough trucks in remote areas of the Indian mountains.

Porters and ponies: We provide ponies till base camp and HAP/ LAPs as per the requirement of the expedition.

Fuel and gases: Fuel (aftwer BC) is not a part of cost included section, but we will manage Butane / Butane propane gases for you on your timely request.

Trek & BC food : We offer a mixture of Vegetarian and Non vegetarian food till BC including the several herbs we have individually discovered with the medicinal values and capacity to keep the body warm. We have cooks who make Korean, Japnese and Continental food along with Indian food.

Our guides & instructors: Our guides are basically trained till BC trekking and support to establish BC. But our instructors do have good experience of mountaineering who can join the expeditions to higher levels too.

Ground Support system: We have fantastic ground support system developed in collaboration with the local people of nearest villages, army camps, porters and local guides. We have re discovered the use of traditional communication system also along with the setellite phones to stay in touch with the groups after BC. Our BC staff is trained to keep information of the groups at ABC and between and act as per the situation.

Cost Includes & not: The cost includes all hotels, guest houses, camps till BC, food till BC, ponies, porters, LAP/ HAP, food & tents for the porters, cooks and staff at BC, insurance of our permanenet staff, food for LO, cargo management, all transportation, all sightseeing, liasioning and coordination, trekking guides and BC management. The cost doent include IMF fees and environment levies, State Government fees and environment levies, porters insurance, clients air fares, helicopter evacuation, extra porters requirement from the BC, extra days at or above BC and any expenditure on personal level including clients insurance/ visa etc.