Travel Insurance

You must be fully covered by health insurance for the duration of the trip and your policy must include: personal injury, medical expenses abroad, emergency medical evacuation, death and repatriation. If your primary care practitioner does not cover the above, you must take out a travel insurance policy that includes emergency medical evacuation coverage for the duration of your time abroad.

We have used www.insuremytrip.com to purchase travel insurance in the past. They will provide you with competitive quotes from different carriers. Make sure that whichever provideryou choose to go with covers trekking in remote locations and high-altitudes. We have found some carriers to exclude activities above 14,000ft and trekking in remote locations. There is a lot of fine print in these polices and the last thing we want is for you to purchase a policy that we find out later will not even cover you for the trek.

Here are some policies that we have gone with in the past:

STA Travel: 'Standard' package www.statravel.com

Global Travel Shield: 'Standard' policy www.globaltravelshield.com

We will ask you for proof of health coverage to be submitted with your final deposit.

• TRIP PREPARATION

• Flying
• Indian Visa
• Travel Insurance
• Health & Safety FAQ
• Vaccinations
• Packing

"What you couldn't learn is what dear trip leaders Ashley and Tashi were! They went out of their ways to be helpful, friendly, informative, and entertaining the entire trip: Tashi anticipates when you might need physical help – before you do; he's a wealth of info and tireless about sharing it; his sense of humor is readily accessible, and his English is fabulous. Ashley is attractive in every way: consistently warm, incredibly patient, an amazing athlete and, like her good friend, Tashi, always enjoys humor; her interest in the Ladakh area, its people, its history, its customs is contagious. We all learned so much, without knowing it!" –Muffie Conlon, participant 2007