Greening the Desert

Journey highlights

• Build a greenhouse enabling life-long access to green organic vegetables through the year
• Learn traditional mud building and solar passive architecture basics
• Visit the highest village and send a postcard from the Highest Post Office in the World
• Explore 1000-year-old monasteries

Day by day

1. 1

   Day 1: Manali to Kaza via Atal Tunnel and Kunzum Pass (183 km, 8-9 hrs)

2. 2

   Day 2: Local exploration — existing greenhouse, Komic village, highest post office, Langza Buddha statue

3. 3

   Day 3: Travel to project site and meet the host family

4. 4

   Days 4-5: Work on the greenhouse begins, with mud-building technique training

5. 5

   Day 6: Explore Spiti — Dhankhar monastery/fort and 1000-year-old Tabo monastery

6. 6

   Day 7: Continue final greenhouse construction stages

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   Day 8: Complete the greenhouse and inaugurate it

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   Day 9: Return via Kee Monastery, Chicham Bridge, Chandratal Lake to Manali