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Ladakh is a land predominantly Buddhist enclave in northern India, between Pakistan and China. Virtually inaccessible to Western travelers until 1974, its high valleys perched at 4000 meters – including that of Zanskar – home to villages and monasteries or life seems not to have changed for a thousand years. In the light of day nascent, the ancestral hall of prayer Lingshed Gompa is already flooded with smoke. It smells like wet wood fire and hot cake of barley, a novice is salted tea with yak butter, a strong drink and fat little stomach compatible with Western, especially at this early hour While meditation begins The murmur of severe old monks filled the room and rises louder and louder, punctuated by the litany of prayer wheels … We are at the other end of the world. Five days of walking apart from the monastery Lingshed the first village to the south, in the heart of the Zanskar And if one continues north, it takes five days to reach the Indus Valley. Lingshed is a mandatory stop for trekkers who go into summer in the great crossing of the Zanskar in 10 days.

The reception of monks is comforting, so it is advisable to take a full day of rest if you want to get to the end of the trek in good shape. Especially after facing the neck of the Hanamul and 4700 meters and cons before embarking on The Singil, which rises to over 5000 meters! This region is cut off from the rest of the world for six months of the year is certainly one of the most isolated valleys of Ladakh with almost 4000 meters of altitude and steep mountain passes One of the highest inhabited regions the planet, it’s that isolation that has led to the installation of Buddhism among the populations in South Zanskaris blocked by the great Himalayas and north by the Karakoram. There is an island, farming and yak Dzo (hybrid Yak and cows), barley crops are on the terrace during the summer and September is the harvest. Then comes an endless winter during which the only possibility of communication is the frozen Zanskar River, which winds its way between huge cliffs. Then form small human caravans that wind over the ice towards the Indus. The temperature is minus 15 degrees and very dangerous crossing. Sometimes the ice gave way under the weight of men and their cargo, mostly yak butter that the Mountaineers will sell at Leh, Ladakh Places of Upper. They come back with salt, sugar, spices and manufactured products not found in the mountains But once the ice begins to melt, the parade becomes impassable, as the Zanskar gorges are deep. It must then wait several weeks before the high passes are again free of snow in summer, finally opens an access road through the bodywork Pass The Parsi (4400 m).

We can then trade with Lower Ladakh and Kashmir Muslim neighbor. The whole country is dotted gompa (monasteries), some are older than 500 years. For generations, communities of monks and nuns to provide education of young disciples and transmission of Buddhist doctrines. Built on a mountainside monasteries are real miniature cities, essential to the social life of the high valleys. The lower floors are occupied by the kitchens, granaries, workshops and chambers of novices. Live above the older monks and the upper floors are reserved for meditation rooms. Buddhism appeared in India in the fifth century BC, but it was only around the year 1000 as the Lamaism (Tibetan Buddhism) arrived in Ladakh. There are two doctrines. The first, that the former is called “small vehicle”, it is an individual quest for enlightenment. While the second most recent is called “great vehicle”, the follower sacrifices his own quest for serenity for the benefit of others. The Dalai Lama frequently visit the monasteries of Ladakh, at least the most accessible. For example, those of the Indus Valley, it is possible to achieve a 4×4 in the day from Leh. You can sometimes spend the night or plant near the camp. Others are reachable at the cost of several days of walking, like Lingshed There are others still more distant, like that of Desk at the entrance to the Nubra Valley, which requires passing the highest pass bodywork of the world, Khardung it to 5600 meters Throughout the year, amazing religious festivals are celebrated, attracting huge crowds of pilgrims. But why for centuries, monks and villagers have they sought to move ever higher and farther in the mountains? Contrary to romantic legend, they are not spiritual reasons that have guided this choice, but only of economic processes. The high Himalayas to the south forming a barrier, little rainfall water the Ladakh is a cold desert altitude (with the exception of a few oases of life along the Indus, expertly maintained by ingenious systems irrigation).

Farmers are therefore forced to look at high altitude land made fertile by the melting snows and nomadic herders are also fodder for their animals. But tragic paradox: the higher, the better crop yields and life becomes more fragile because of lack of oxygen and high infant mortality. There is a limit beyond which the villages and monasteries p riclitent cyclically adjusted constantly by new generations who still persist to climb.

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