About

We are giving best price for the customer then the other agencies of this region.
I belong to a poor farmer family living in the remote valley of the Lungnak River in Zanskar. Born in 1967, I am the eldest child of a family of 11. At this time the life was very though and at the age of 11 years old, I had to leave Zanskar to find some work out for helping my family members. After spending some years in Leh region, in 1991 I met Pascal Beuret from Switzerland in a trek through chadar. After 2 years of being friends, our relationship become closer and starts to become a family. On this union of two way of life rise the NGO Association Rigzen Zanskar and Marpaling Lamdon Model School Stongday (C.B.S.E board). The Association is ruled on a synergy of an 8 member Swiss committee and 6 member of a local committee. Wish are employing 17 people in full time work and rise up to 40 during the high season, plus many foreigner who’s come in the summer as volunteers to help and sharing knowledge. In 2009 the management committee gave birth to an eco-tourism travel agency called BlueYak Travels…

10 - 15 % of the profit of the Travel Agency is being used for the development the school.