From the archive record
Double-humped camels at Nubra Valley in Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir. One can see the barren hills of Himalaya in the background while the camels walk around. The historic Silk Route used to be a busy trade stopover with caravans of Bactrian camels moving in and out of the Nubra Valley. After the closure of the Silk Route, most of the camels were let off into the wild. Of late, some of them have been domesticated and are being used for the touristy camel rides.It is one of the two surviving camel species. They have two humps on its back, in contrast to the single-humped Dromedary camels. Source: http://10yearitch.com/ This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 1