Drive further onto Pang through a rivulet without a bridge or a marked road. Drive along the river to Leh through the villages of Gaya Upshi, Karu, Thicksy and Shey, The road is metaled and therefore the driving is smooth and is relatively fast. Upon arrival in Leh check into your hotel for 3 nights. Overnight at the hotel. In the morning visit Spituk and Phyanag monasteries.
Afternoon is at leisure.
Overnight at the hotel in Leh. Spituk head Lama is also the head of the Shankar Gompa in Leh. The monastery or the Gompa has three chapels of which the highest, the Paldan Lama Temple is the most impressive . The temple is approximately a thousand years old. Phyang monastery - 16 kms from Leh towards Srinagar, Phyang monastery, with its 16th century gompa housing hundreds of statues on wooden shelves and thangkas, has 15 Lamas and 7 'novices' of the red cap sect and possesses five chapels.