Photo Essay: Shots from Ladakh

Charukesi Ramadurai travels to northern India as well as earnings with these images of a mountainous land as well as a people.

Ladakh or La-Dags, meaning land of high passes attracts travelers from all over a world, who come looking glimpses of a life ordered by Himalayan Buddhism. Some go so distant as to describe it is as a last Shangri La. A land of very old monasteries, stern Buddhists, friendly locals, as well as stunning landscapes, Ladakh stays cut off from a rest of a world during a winter months.

Himalayas, aerial

1. An aerial view of a Himalayas as a flight from New Delhi prepares to land in Leh.

Indian vendor

2. A businessman of dried fruit as well as nuts sits during a Leh market wearing a normal Brokpa costume as well as headgear, waiting for customers.

Vegetable vendors

3. Vegetable vendors display their wares in a categorical market of Leh. During a oppressive winter months, supply of fresh vegetables as well as ornithology to Ladakh is utterly cut off.

Changla Pass

4. Changla Pass, during 5,360 meters, is proudly proclaimed a third-highest motorable pass in a world.

Mother as well as daughter, Ladakh

5. A young Ladakhi woman carries her small daughter in a customary manner.

6. This small Ladakhi lady smiles from a stretch but is shy when it comes to posing for a camera.

Pangong Lake

7. Cloudscapes during Pangong Lake, situated during an betterment of 4,250 meters as well as stretching 134km usually a third of a lake is in India, with a rest in Tibet.

Mountain reflection, India

8. Reflections of a plateau upon a dull grey sunrise nearby Pangong Lake.

Indian monks

9. Young monks in precision during an early sunrise prayer event during a Thiksey nunnery nearby Leh.

Buddhist monk

10. A unique priest walks in for his sunrise prayers during a Thiksey monastery.

Indian painter

11. Traditional painter Norboo Sonam works during his home in Likir, a integrate hours expostulate from Leh.

Indus River

12. At a confluence of a Zanskar as well as Indus rivers, nearby a encampment of Nimmo, an hours expostulate from Leh. From here a blue immature waters upsurge to Pakistan.

Indian woman

13. An old woman wearing protecting sunglasses opposite a oppressive mountain light during a categorical m! arket in Leh.

Tso Moriri, India

14. The other high-altitude lake of Ladakh, Tso Moriri, whose waters change color with a whims of a sunlight.

15. A Ladakhi grandfather walks with his young grandson upon a streets of Leh.

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