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Modern Routes Ladakh -

To Travel in Ladakh travelers from Srinagar drive on this route in the relative comfort of taxis, local buses or their own vehicles, taking two days and breaking journey at Kargil. It provides the best possible trekking introduction to the land and its people. At one step as you cross the Zoji-la, you pass from the lushness of Kashmir into the bare uncompromising contours of a trans-Himalayan landscape. Drass, the first major village over the pass, inhabited by a population of mixed Kashmiri and Dard origins, has the local reputation of being the second coldest permanent inhabited spot in the world. But in summer when the pass is open and the tourists are going though, the standing crops and clumps of willow give it a gently, smiling look.  On departure from Kargil, the road plunges into the ridges and valley of the Zanskar range over a huge mound of alluvium, now made fertile by a huge irrigation scheme.

Mulbekh with its gigantic rock engraving of Maitreya (Buddha-to come) and its gompa perched high on crag above the village, is the transition from Muslim to Buddhist Ladakh. It is followed by two more passes, Namika-la (12,200 feet/ 3,719m) and Fotu-la (13,432 feet / 4,094 m). From Fotu-la, the road descends in sweeps and shirls, past the ancient and spectacularly sited monastery of Lamayuru, past amazing wind-eroded towers and pinnacles of lunar-landscape rock, down to the Indus at Khalatse- a descent of almost 4,000 feet/ 1,219 m in about 32 km.

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Tours To Kashmir/Leh Ladakh Himalayas India :-

Srinagar Tour (Soul of Kashmir)    Duration : 03 Nights / 04 Days	Day to Day Itinerary	Ask For Travel Details
Kashmir - Paradise on Earth    Duration : 08 Days Tour	Day to Day Itinerary	Ask For Travel Details
The Amarnath Cave- Holy Heart of India    Duration : 03 Nights / 04 Days	Day to Day Itinerary	Ask For Travel Details
Best of Himachal, Kashmir, Ladakh    Duration : 17 Days	Day to Day Itinerary	Ask For Travel Details
Leh Ladakh Tours| Ladakh the Last Leg	Day to Day Itinerary	Ask For Travel Details

Hotels in Kashmir                              Hotels in Leh-Ladakh

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