Ladakh

Place Zanskar Canyon

The rocky wilderness

Petr Liška
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Zanskar Canyon
Inserted: 03.11.2016
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One of the wildest canyons in the Himalayas is the one along the river Zanskar, the largest tributary of the Indus in Ladakh. Above the river rise and steep rocky hillsides and over the summer it is impassable. In winter you can go through across the ice under the famous trek chadar.

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