Category “Adventure”
Back from the Himalayas!
I’ve just returned from the Indian Himalayas. I’ve spent three weeks in Himachal Pradesh (a region in the northwest of India) and in particular visited the valleys of Lahaul, Spiti and Kinnaur. I was confronted with incredible natural landscapes – ranging from areas with very rich vegetation to high altitude deserts to snow-capped peaks above 6000 meters – but also with stunning buddhist monastries and a very welcoming and sincere rural population always with a smile on the face. Now the cumbersome but rewarding work of processing the 1100+ photos I shot awaits me… below a quick one I’ve selected from the bunch. It’s the mudbrick fort of Dhankar in the Spiti valley: now empty and used as stable, it once sheltered the whole population of the Nono kingdom during times of war.
