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7. Ladakh
‘Otherworldly’ is probably the most appropriate term to define the highest inhabited region of India. The scale of the multi-hued mountains is only really experienced when you whip out your regular wide-angle lens, only to find that what stands before you cannot be captured in its giddy entirety in one frame. The landscape changes from steep lunar rocks to white sands in the Nubra Valley and to placid blue water in the Pangong Lake. Tibetan Buddhist monasteries hang on steep rock-faces, so make sure you carry a sturdy tripod.
Ladakh touches the clouds. It has a sensational landscape, the air has a nip to it, the windows are misty all the time, the birds sing across the Pangong Lake and the silence of the monks at Buddhist monasteries inspires. Let’s see if your lens can capture all that!
8. Spiti Valley
Ladakh’s lesser-known neighbour, the cold mountain desert of Spiti is for travellers who dare to drift from tourist trails. Spiti’s postcard villages remain remotely tucked away in the lap of the mighty, barren Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh. It is here that you can hike along snow leopard and Himalayan wolf habitats, visit monasteries dating back over a 1000 years, sample a culture and cuisine different from the rest of India, and meet the kindest of people who live the harshest of lives. This is the world within a world, as Rudyard Kipling once described it.
It’s a great place for photographers to practise and hone their skills while exploring the beauty of villages and pristine sights of this environment.
