Sujoy Das Photographs from Sikkim and the Himalayas : Ladakh and Zanskar

Ladakh and Zanskar Galleries

Ladakh : Photographs from Ladakh 2009 and 2010

Ladakh Monasteries : "We looked at the monastery..it seemed that it was alive. It was .. as if.. everything that was happening in front of us ..was part of one vast, luminous, transparent living organism... We were looking at a living creature, a creature of light and rock and air.. " Andrew Harvey, A Journey to Ladakh 1983, writing about Thikse monastery.

Ladakh Monasteries

Rumtse to Tso Moriri :

Rumtse to Tso Moriri

Zanskar : " I stepped outside and again was struck by the magnificent view: a full circle of peaks surrounded the flat sea of the central plain dotted with it's villages, refuges in a world unfit for man. If ever there lay a valley cut off from the world, a hidden, secret land, it was Zanskar." Michel Peissel, Zanskar- The Hidden Kingdom, 1976.

Zanskar Monasteries :

Zanskar Monasteries

Across Zanskar Trek - Wanla to Padum : The Across Zanskar trek used to begin at Lamayuru and end at Padum. The 2nd half of the trek was from Padum to Darcha. The entire trek used to take around 3 weeks. However due to road construction at both ends the trek has been shortened. It now begins at Phanjila and ends at Pidmo instead of Padum reducing three days from the first half of the trek. Due to time constraints I was not able to do the 2nd half from Padum to Darcha. However, the road is relentlessly penetrating Zanskar and quite soon I am sure it will cover the full route and vehicles and motor bikes will be careering down the road all the way to Manali from Lamayuru. When this happens a way of life for the Zanskaris will be lost forever.

Across Zanskar Trek - Wanla to Padum

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