Hotel Lumbini
A big institutional place at the far end of Fort Rd, with a large courtyard shaded by apple trees...
A big institutional place at the far end of Fort Rd, with a large courtyard shaded by apple trees...
Packed around a small central garden, pink-marble corridors lead to variable but mostly spacious rooms a...
Phyang’s only accommodation, the delightful Hidden North Guesthouse is set in a lovely mountain-facing sunflower garden, unfussy rooms are immaculately maintained and the bathrooms are possibly the cleanest in Ladakh.
Tarchit Camp, 2km beyond Wanla on the Fanjila road, is building two guest rooms and offers homestay mattress spaces in the traditional family dining room.
About the nearest Leh comes to fashionable modern decor, the Pangong’s rooms get more stylish the higher you climb, with good linens, multichannel TV, smart bathrooms and carpets that almost fit. The quiet access lane is unlit.
The cutest of several newer mini guesthouses, each with peaceful and attractive gardens. The two double rooms have decent bathrooms.
The Lotsava is a somewhat austere-looking three-storey cube of traditional Ladakhi farmhouse in a dark, flowerless garden. Downstairs rooms are simple. Upper rooms are brighter and pleasant albeit with plywood ceilings.
Curiously hidden amid cow pens, the main house has a cute garden and simple, bright rooms. Those with bathroom are contrastingly dark in the annexe opposite.
Hot Springs Guesthouse is one of Panamik’s four modest guesthouses, strung along the main road starting around 1km north of the hot springs.
Amid Dha village’s tomato gardens, apricot orchards and huddles of rough stone barns is mud-floored Skybapa Guesthouse.
This Nepali-managed traditional Ladakhi house attracts a laid-back crowd with its congenial garden and great little chill-out zones.
Toro Guesthouse has a traditional kitchen and its little communal balcony surveys the beautiful snow-speckled knife-edge mountain horizon.
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