High altitude lakes - Pangong & Tso Moriri, Jammu Kashmir, India.

Leh to Pangong lake via Chang la (5288 m, 150 km) and the road leads to Chusul at China border. Travel needs inner line permits from DM Leh. Another high altitude lake in Ladakh is Tso Moriri (4595 m, 19 km long and 7 km wide) via Kurzok.

Demchok (336 km from Leh) has road connections to Manas sarovar lake. Road closed due to Chinese annexation of Tibet in 1950. Leh - Mane (46) - Nyoma (168) - Dungti junction- Rongo (214) - Hanle (262, world's highest astronomical observatory) - Photi la (280) - Koyul (296) - Demchok (336). Distances in bracket are in kilometre from Leh.