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Leh & Ladakh
Alchi is unlike any other gompa in Ladakh: it sits low by the Indus rather than on a crag, and its temples preserve some of the finest 11th–12th century…
The observatory stands at Hanle at 4,500 metres, which makes it one of the world's highest sites for optical, infrared and gamma-ray telescopes, and the…
Leh-Ladakh is a high-altitude desert region cradled by the Himalayan and Karakoram ranges in the union territory of Ladakh.
Nubra is a three-armed valley north of Leh at an average of nearly 3,048 metres, cut over millennia where the Shyok and the Nubra meet.
Pangong Tso is an endorheic lake at roughly 4,225 metres on the Changtang plateau of eastern Ladakh.
Ladakh's most-climbed big peak, and the most often underestimated.
The Suru River drains this valley on its way to the Indus, and NH301 runs the length of it: up the Stod valley from Padum in the south to Pensi La, then north…
Tso Moriri, or Mountain Lake, is an offbeat high-altitude lake tucked away at an astounding elevation of 4,522 metres on the Changtang plateau of southeastern…
Upshi is a road junction with a village attached, 47 km southeast of Leh where the Indus valley meets the Leh-Manali highway below Tanglang La.
Zanskar is one of the last genuinely difficult journeys left in India, and that is the whole appeal.
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