An alien land on our Earth? In Spiti Valley? Is it possible!? Well these same questions were coming into my mind when I was in that place. It is just unexplainable, out of the World which can only be compared with outer space planets like Mars. With unique rock structures, river lines, plains and loneliness makes this region like a land from outer World.
How we reached to this alien land of Spiti Valley?
Well it wouldn’t be possible if a bridge called Chicham was not there. This bridge was just completed in September 2017 and open for everyone who are coming from Kaza to Chandratal via Chicham village & Kiato Village enroute Kibber village.
It connects two village Kibber and Chicham which are situated in two different mountains. This bridge has been announced as tallest bridge in Asia in terms of height. Chicham bridge is 120 meters tall and 150 meter high.
I have marked the places in the Google map and pointed with the number so you can identify which place is in the photograph listed below.
Our Journey
We started our journey on 30th September, 2017 through the northern motorable road from Kaza to Manali via Chandratal, passes through some spectacular scenery.
We stopped for a while near the Chicham bridge and took few pictures and started again towards Kiato Village. As our car was rolling on, the route was revealing its pleasures. For the first 21 kms the road followed the right bank of the Spiti river, going on the flat valley floor. Finally we reached Hal village. From here a solid bridge over the Gyundi nala took us to a wilder terrain.
Suddenly the surrounding gorges and valleys took curious shapes and the slopes were colorful. This is the limestone area of Kiato.
After driving few more kilometers towards Kiato village we crossed a beautiful scenic place with a bridge which is suppose to called Kiato bridge. This bridge is connecting the Gramphu-Batal-Kaza road over the Spiti river.
The geography of the place
This place was the spectacular one. The rocky mountains of two sides of the river Spiti made us just spellbound. They look like giant fortress structures with spires, pinnacles and windows. Some of the structures look like cylindrical or pyramidical.
As Spiti valley is strategically located in the trans-Himalayan niche, the region is surrounded by enormous mountain ranges and traversed by the main line of the Himalayas. Spiti is a land of fascinating contrasts, shocks of green alternating in a barren expanse of russet. You can find lots of variation in mountain structures at this place. The newly completed road into this barren land will surely make you feel like into the wild. We were just intoxicated with the beauty of this place.
This weird rocks and sand structures on mountains make this place different from the other places of Spiti Valley. As it was untouched it is still unknown land to most of the Indian travellers as well as the travellers around the World.
How we experienced
We stepped out from our car, saw and mesmerized, clicked lots of photos. In the meantime the music of a song, “Shine on you crazy diamond” of the band Pink Floyd was coming in the background from our car, and that made us hallucinate. I can still feel the essence of that place, the sound of the flowing Spiti river still echo in my ears. The landscape is so unique that you will definitely want to capture it in every steps.
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