Zanskar
Courtyard (homestay), Shagar Yokma,
Zanskar, Ladakh, India
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The Zanskar Courtyard is
a beautiful and comfortable homestay built by Sonam Dawa
in 2020-2022. It is located in the village of Shagar Yokma, some 15km northwest
of Padum in the valley of the Stod
River. It is an ideal base for many day hikes and longer treks, as well as for
visiting Buddhist gompas, in particular the Sani gompa
(with its pre-Tibetan Buddhist statues) and the rarely visited, but spectacular
Zongkhul gompa. Next to the homestay, a small cheese factory,
also created by Sonam Dawa, produces a very tasty cheese
made with the milk of dzomo, a female hybrid of yak
and cattle raised above 3600m.
Sonam Dawa
is the owner and manager of Adventure
Travel Mark . He organized the logistics of four of my trips to Ladakh/Zanskar
in 2016,
2018,
2019,
and 2022.
He can be contacted by
email at sdawa11@gmail.com and by phone and
WhatsApp at +91 94191 78963.
