About

Ladakh

Ladakh is famous for its distant mountain beauty and culture. Its swans the great Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges and the upper Indus River Valley. Ladakh is bordered by two of the worlds uppermost elevation ranges like the Karakoram in the north and the great Himalayas in the south.the Pakistan occupied Kashmir lies in the west and China in the north and eastern part and Lahaul spite of Himachal; Pradesh in the South east of the district. Ladakh’s racial composition consisted of Mongoloid and a mixed Indo-Aryan population of Ons and Dards. The approach to Ladakh is always marked with many long walls running 2-3 kms adorned with engraved stones. Ladakh is known as the land of abundant passes, and shattered moorland.Ladakh is a high elevation desert as the Himalayas make a rain shadow thus segregation the entry of monsoon clouds. The main source of water here are the remnants of the winter snowfall on the mountains that forms glaciers. The rest of the parts of the country where people request for rain, here Ladakhi’s implore for the glaciers or the snows to melt for irrigation and drinking determinations.

The district of Skardo and a part of Kargil became the terrain of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (Pak) and Ladakh remained with Jammu and Kashmir. There are also some spiritual places of Muslims which establish somewhat more than 15% of the district’s population. The most gorgeous structures of the landscape of Leh are the Buddhists Gonpas known as Monasteries. The main source of water here relics the winter snowfall on the mountains that forms snow.