Pin Valley National Park
Snow leopard country, and the Buchen lamas.
- Where
- Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, India
- Grade
- Hard to reach
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 15 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 31.9669, 77.8807
Get the Pin Valley National Park stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Pin Valley National Park. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Himachal Pradesh volume with your photos and a note.
Near Pin Valley National Park
Pin Parvati Pass 14 km
The crossing from green Parvati into bare Spiti, over a glacier, five thousand three hundred metres.
Kaza 34 km
The Spiti sub divisional headquarters at 3,800 metres.
Dhankar Monastery 34 km
Built on a spur of crumbling rock above the Spiti.
Khirganga National Park 35 km
High forest and glacier in the Parvati valley, notified in 2010 and mostly trackless.
Key Monastery 39 km
A thousand year old Buddhist monastery stacked on a hill in Spiti at four thousand metres, rebuilt after fires, raids and an earthquake.
Great Himalayan National Park 43 km
Eleven hundred square kilometres with no roads through it, holding snow leopard, musk deer and western tragopan.
Manirang 46 km
A peak on the Spiti-Kinnaur divide, with a pass of the same name beneath it.
Tabo Monastery 49 km
A thousand years of murals in mud walls.
More offbeat places in Himachal Pradesh
Questions
Where is Pin Valley National Park?
Pin Valley National Park is in Spiti, Himachal Pradesh. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Pin Parvati Pass (14 km), Kaza (34 km), Dhankar Monastery (34 km).
How do I get the Pin Valley National Park stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Pin Valley National Park and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Himachal Pradesh volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Pin Valley National Park before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Himachal Pradesh volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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