Top 10 Photography Spots You’ll Visit on a Guided Spiti Tour

Spiti, the Middle Land, is famous for providing ample spots for photography. Each is a quaint getaway and one can try different image compositions for the same spot. While all spots will provide you good opportunities at image-making, some locations will steal your heart, so remember taking your cameras out to capture the moment and landscape.

Here is a list of spots we feel you will / should cover on any guided photography trip to Spiti:

1. Langza Buddha Statue

This is a must-visit spot on any Spiti valley photography tour. An image here with the giant Buddha statue and his aura together with the surrounding landscape will reflect on Him looking over the valley.

2. Komic Village

Do visit Komic, a village set at approximately 15,000 ft. above sea level. The village provides a vantage view of the valley, and the roads loop you up in the beauty of the valley.

3. Losar

A quaint village set in the Middle Land, Losar deserves a special place in a Spiti Valley Photography Tour. The textured mountains together with the light and shadow work on the mountains creates unrealistically beautiful images.

4. Dhankar

Unique mountains with vertical rock formations define Dhankar, which along with river paths and flags, give you a different perspective on landscape photography.

5. Pin Valley

A vast village set close to Dhankar, the mountains of Pin Valley are gigantic and sometimes don’t fit into a regular 3*2 or 2*3 image. It’s magnificent beauty coupled with the fact that there is hardly any population inhabiting the village, provide for picturesque moments and images.

6. Kye Monastery

Make place in your itinerary for Kye Monastery. The view from the monastery is breath-taking, for you will see the Spiti river bed before the gigantic mountains. Plus, the fluttering flags add character to any image framed in Spiti. You can also try making an image from outside the Monastery, and add it as an extra element in your image from a vantage point.

7. Any Spot with Wildlife

Apart from the famous spots mentioned above, if at any spot you see Blue Sheep, Ibex, Red Fox etc., please take a moment to capture them, whether for portraits or with the surrounding landscape.

8. Landscapes on the way to Spiti

Landscape in Spiti is beautiful, but don’t forget to capture landscape on the way to Spiti. For example, the landscape takes a 180 degree shift when you start from Kalpa and move to Nako before entering Kaza. Make sure your cameras are at work, capturing the shift in landscape. You can also try capturing landscapes in Lahaul, which are greener than Spiti but are equally gigantic.

9. Kaza

The headquarter of Spiti, Kaza itself has majestic beauty. Such beauty is reflected in the expansive width and height of the mountains, and with the river bed shining through sunlight, one can uniquely compose landscape images here.

10. Kunzum La Pass

This pass is often snow-capped and provides for an immense landscape view of Lahaul on one side, and Spiti on the other. Look around yourself here – you are already standing at a vantage point.

Visiting these spots is essential for any photography trip to Spiti, but keep in mind that your best image may come from a fleeting moment somewhere in the middle of nowhere! Grab that moment and make an image of a lifetime.