Padum!

Zanskar Valey to Padum

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October 28th 2013
2 boring days of walking in the desolate Zanskar valley towards Padum. We're slowly coming into contact with "civilization". We're about halfway of our trek now. After the Chorten's sprinkled valley, we hit the village of Karcha with one of the most impressive gompa's we have seen. I mean not so much architecturally but the energy was out of this world! The day after we we ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more