The tour of the Nubra region starts from Leh and follows the old caravan trade route to Central Asia, a “feeder” of the famous Silk Route. It takes in the world’s highest motorable mountain pass – the Khardung-la, pretty villages with banks of wild flowers and stands of willow and poplar, valleys covered with seabuckthorn shrubs, stretches of sand dunes and double-humped Bactrian camels, remote monasteries, and medicinal hot springs.