Ladakh

village

A boy pumps water from a hand-pump in Choglamsar district of Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Water is collected in plastic containers.

street food

Ladakhi food has much in common with Tibetan food, the most prominent foods being thukpa (noodle soup) and tsampa, known in Ladakhi as ngampe (roasted barley flour). Edible without cooking, tsampa makes useful trekking food.

Red billed Choughs in Ladakh Birds in Ladakh. Ladakh is known for bone chilling temperatures and high mountainous terrains. Ladakh lies between the Kunlun mountain range in the north and the main Great Himalayas to the south.

festival

The Kung Fu Nuns perform at The Inner Path Festival in Delhi, India. The Drukpa nuns in Ladakh form a feminist branch of Buddhism, which encourages them to study and seek enlightenment on par with monks.

highway

A beautiful time lapse of the Majestic Himalayas, Ladakh - Jammu and Kashmir.... Leh, was the capital of the Himalayan kingdom of Ladakh, now the Leh district in the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir.

hills

Ladakh is a region of India in the state of Jammu and Kashmir and lies between the Kunlun mountain range in the north and the main Great Himalayas to the south, inhabited by people of Indo-Aryan and Tibetan descent.

The Yak is a long-haired bovine found throughout the Himalayan region of south Central Asia. Yaks are herd animals.

hills

Ladakh is a region of Jammu and Kashmir,in the northernmost state of the Republic of India. It lies between the Kunlun mountain range in the north and the main Great Himalayas to the south, inhabited by people of Indo-Aryan and Tibetan desc…

Ladakh lies between the Kunlun mountain range in the north and the main Great Himalayas to the south. Ladakh is the highest plateau of the Indian state of Kashmir with much of it being over 3,000 m (9,800 ft).

Ladakh is a land of high passes on the borderland of India & Tibet. Ladakh is also known as 'The Land of the Mystic Lamas', 'The Broken Moon land', or 'The Last Shangri-La'.

Sun set in Ladakh. Ladakh lies between the Kunlun mountain range in the north and the main Great Himalayas to the south. Ladakh is the highest plateau of the Indian state of Kashmir with much of it being over 3,000 m (9,800 ft).

snow

Ice Capped Mountains in Ladakh. Ladakh is a region of Jammu and Kashmir, the northernmost state of the Republic of India.

Time Lapse of Clouds in Ladakh. Nestled between the Kunlun Mountain ranges and the Himalayas, Ladakh boasts of innumerable vistas ranging from lakes to mountains and valleys.

Time Lapse of Clouds in Ladakh. Ladakh lies between the Kunlun mountain range in the north and the main Great Himalayas to the south.

monsoon

The condition of houses after the flood disaster in Ladakh. People are living in relief tents because their home have been collapsed due to the diaster.

Filmed in a remote region of Ladakh, these star hyperlapses reveal Earth's rotation through mesmerizing celestial trails

Man Milking a yak in Ladakh. Ladakh is a land of high passes on the borderland of India & Tibet. Ladakh is also known as 'The Land of the Mystic Lamas', 'The Broken Moon land', or 'The Last Shangri-La'.

hills · lake

The marmots are a genus, Marmota, of squirrels. There are 14 species in this genus. This group of Marmot were seen either in Spiti or near Pangong Tso lake, in the Himachal Pradesh / Jammu & Kashmir region...

An Indian man cooks chicken for the trekkers during their Snow leopard expedition in Ladakh, India.

dance

Group of men perform Chang folk dance during Sindhu Darshan Festival in Ladakh. Dancer performs dance while carrying the container.

birds · wildlife

Chukor or Chukar (Alectoris chukar) is a Eurasian upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae.

livestock · bazaar

Woman milking a cow in Ladakh. This is really a small version of the plains cow, what we call a pahari cow in India! Animal husbandry is one of the most important occupation in India and a large number of farmers in depend on this for their…

hills

Vignettes from peak winter in Thiksey - an old Buddhist woman turns a giant prayer wheel, fields seen from the Thiksey hill - the stark colours of winter in the high trans Himalayan region of Ladakh.