Most visitors reach the Nubra Valley by road, over the famously high Khardung La. Trekking there instead, via the quieter Lasermo La crossing from Digar village, offers a genuinely different experience — several days of remote, rarely visited high country before the trail drops into one of Ladakh’s strangest landscapes: a valley of sand dunes patrolled by double-humped Bactrian camels, descendants of animals used on the old Silk Route trade caravans.
The trek itself follows a familiar Ladakh structure — steady altitude gain toward a high pass, a demanding but non-technical crossing above 5,300m, and a long descent — but the villages en route, particularly on the Digar side, see a fraction of the traffic of routes like Markha Valley, giving this trek a noticeably wilder feel.
The payoff at the end is unlike anywhere else on this list: after days of high alpine passes and glacial terrain, arriving at Hunder’s dunes and camels feels like stepping into an entirely different country, a fitting way to close out a Ladakh trekking trip.
