Stok
Stok is a village in the Leh district of Ladakh, India.
Stok is a village in the Leh district of Ladakh, India. It is located in the Chushot tehsil, in the Indus Valley 17 km southeast of the Leh town.
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Worth seeing in and around Stok
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Stok Monastery
Stok Monastery or Stok Gompa is a Buddhist monastery in Stok, Leh district, Ladakh, northern India, 15 kilometres south of Leh. It was founded by Lama Lhawang Lotus in the 14th Century and has a notable library including all 108 volumes of the Kangyur.
1 km · Buddhist monastery in Ladakh, India · Wikipedia
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Getting to Stok
- Airports
- Skardu (KDU), 232 km · Srinagar (SXR), 256 km
- Skardu → Stok222 km · quickest by road, 28h 52m · ₨13,350–17,750
- Sialkot → Stok330 km · quickest by road, 16h 38m · ₨7,400–9,850
- Lahore → Stok409 km · quickest by road, 14h 52m · ₨6,600–8,800
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No local-transport research exists yet for Stok
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Stok. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe fastest way to get to Leh from Manali is by tempo traveller or taxi van, sometimes by 4WD.
- Get inShared taxis do the trip in one long day (of about 14 hr).
- Get inIn case of 4WD, it is advised to take a front seat and do not allow yourself to be seated in the boot.
- Get inThere might also be minibuses and shared taxis that make an overnight stop in Sarchu—this comes with a high incidence of altitude sickness, since Sarchu (also dubbed "The Vomit Hilton") lies more than 700 m higher than Leh, at 4,253 m.
- Get inYou can either book direct to Leh or book your seat on sumo taxi to Kargil for ₹500, stay overnight and then book your seat for Leh from Kargil and pay ₹400 upon arrival in Leh but this is a lot of messing around and accommodation in Kargil is often of poor value.
From Wikivoyage: Leh, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.
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