Ladakh

                                                                                            10.07-15.07.2008

Ladakh1 / Ladakh2

Khardung La - the highest motorable road in the world

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	The views are spectacular even it is snowing (mid of July!!!!)		The pass at 18380 ft (5514m), it is snow storm there
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	You get souvenir shop (to buy woolen socks and hats if you come unprepared), museum and coffee shop
3	Luckily we got hot tea at the pass to warm our frozen bodyes
			I was also there!
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	Because the snow and ice on the road the driver had to put the chains on the wheels		The other side of the pass is also under the snow
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	Snaking road cut in the mountain face		Chukar bird at 4000m
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	Diskit gompa perched on a rock beside a deep gorge		Monk turning the prayer wheel
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	Door at Diskit		Interesting lock and keys
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	Diskit gompa is 500 years old		Diskit
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	Life in Diskit village		Shopping street in Diskit
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	Sand dunes and snow-capped mountains, an unusual combination		Sand dunes between Diskit and Hunder
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	Our guesthouse in the village of Hunder		Samstemling Gompa in Sumur
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	Landscape with chortens
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	Nubra valley, amazing landscape
	Take a drive through Nubra Valley ►       movie-Film		Take a drive (part 2) ►          movie-Film
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	Village in green oasis setted in desert and mountain landscape		Prayer flags
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	At 16000 ft (4800m) you can get beside tea and coffee also oxygen cylinder
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	Yaks		The road clambers on the mountain side to the Khardung La pass (to the left). Storm clouds are aproaching
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	The road toward Khardung La		Again the pass was covered by clouds, the road toward Leh can be barely seen
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	The clouds open up, the snaking road makes a striking feature on the mountain		Aproaching Leh
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	The mountains near Leh carry fresh snow		Flying out of Leh, the landscape seen from the airplane is just incredible
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	Glaciers		Glacier and river

Ladakh1 / Ladakh2