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The Markha River on "Little Tibet," one of the world's highest inhabited plateaus, offers spectacular views of the Great Himalayan, Ladakh and Zanskar ranges.
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The Markha River on "Little Tibet," one of the world's highest inhabited plateaus, offers spectacular views of the Great Himalayan, Ladakh and Zanskar ranges. There are two high passes at elevations up to 17,400'. Trails wind past willow groves, alongside patches of wild roses and through pastel canyons
festooned with multi-hued prayer flags undulating in the breeze. At the high altitude in Leh someone can set out to explore the heartland of the central Ladakh Valley. It involves crossing of the three passes - Stok La/ 4848m, Kagmaru La/ 5274m, Gandla/ 4878m and walking on the banks of the Markha River. Lamayuru is a Tibetan Buddhist Gompa in Kargil District, Western Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India, situated on the Srinagar - Kargil - Leh road 15km. east of the the Fatu La pass, at a height of 3510m. It founded by the Indian scholar Mahasiddhacarya Naropa in the 11th century, after spending many years meditating, Lamayuru is the largest and oldest gompa in Ladakh with a population of around 150 permament monks resident. It has, in the past, housed up to 400 monks, many of which are now based in gompas in surrounding villages. Lamayuru is host to two yearly masked dance festivals, in the second and fifth months of the Tibetan lunar calendar, when all the monks from these surrounding gompas gather together to pray.
Jammu and Kashmir is the northern-most state of India, located mostly in the Himalayan Mountains. It shares a border with Himachal Pradesh to the south, Pakistan to the west and People's Republic of China to the north and the east. Jammu and Kashmir has three divisions: Jammu, Vale of Kashmir and Ladakh. Srinagar is its summer capital and Jammu its winter capital.  |
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