PHOTO DOCUMENTATION: INDIAN HIMALAYA'2003
Klaus Dierks
© Dr. Klaus Dierks 2004
With nearly seventy years of age (myself) and my wife (much younger) we dared again to cross the High Himalaya Main Range in the Indian Himalayas. From September to November 2003 we visited the formerly autonomous Tibetan provinces (polities) of Lahaul, Spiti and Kinnaur in the Himachal Pradesh. We trekked to the Tibetan border and Changra Tal (Moon Lake: 4 270 m) and crossed the 4 650 m Kunzum La from Lahaul to Spiti. From the capital of Spiti, Kaza (3 600 m), we visited some the best preserved monasteries of the Tibetan Buddhism like Ki Gompa, Kibber Gompa, Tabo Gompa, Dankar Gompa, Lachung Gompa and Kungri Gompa. These monasteries are mostly more than 1 000 years in age and belonged to the West-Tibetan kingdom of Guge. They are in contrast to the monasteries in Tibet (People's Republic of China) not destroyed like the monasteries in Tholing and Tsaparang (we visited them in the year 1998) and many others, which were demolished in the Chinese Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s. The many wall paintings and frescoes which are more than 1 000 years old, are the best Buddhist art works still to be found. Some of them are documented by photography for the first time.
We also visited the highest, permanently inhabited settlement in the world, Kibber Gompa (4 230 m). These and many other villages in the remote Spiti preserved their Tibetan character much better than many villages on the other side of the border. We lived with the Tibetan people and experienced a traditional Tibetan wedding ceremony in Kaza.
From Kungri Gompa we started our trek via main range of the High Himalaya, the Tarik La (5 230 m), into the Kinnaur, to Rekong Peo and Kalpa (Chini) with the mighty Kinnaur (Kinner) Kailash (6 050 m) in the background. From Kalpa we again moved to the Tibetan border at Nako where the Sutlej River crosses the Indo-Tibetan border. Here again we had the opportunity to be invited to a traditional Tibetan wedding which is documented by photography.
Our trekking expedition started in Shimla, the capital of the Himachal Pradesh.
(The photo documentation will be built up in the coming months, early 2004).
Journey into the High Himalayas
The 600 mm Toy Train from Kalka to Shimla:
From 650 m to 2 200 m: With hundreds of Tunnels and Bridges
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View on Shimla to the West
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View on Shimla to the North
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View from Shimla into the Sutlej Valley: View
to the Northwest
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Shimla Bazaar
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Shimla: The Mall: Reflecting India's Colonial
Past of the "Raj": Shimla was the Summer Capital of the British Indian Empire
until 1947
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Shimla: Hinduistic Hanuman (Monkey God) Temple
( 2 500 m): View to the East
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Shimla: Hinduistic Hanuman (Monkey God) Temple
( 2 500 m): View on Shimla
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Between Shimla and Bilaspur: View into the
Sutlej and Beas Rivers to the North: in Direction Mandi and Manali
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View on Manali
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My Daughter Annette Dierks with Manali in the
Background: November 2003
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Yak in Manali: November 2003
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The Road from Manali to the Rohtang Pass 3 980
m: September 2003
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Rohtang Pass 3 980 m: Between Manali and
Lahaul: The Tibetan Praying Flags mark the Transition from the Hinduistic World of the
Himachal Pradesh to the Buddhist World of Lahaul and Spiti
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View north of the Rohtang Pass into the
Chandra (Chenab) Valley and Lahaul: Direction to the East
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View north of the Rohtang Pass into the
Chandra (Chenab) Valley and Lahaul: Direction to the Northwest
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Battal (4 012 m) in the Chandra (Chenab)
Valley: Direction to the West (Rohtang Pass) with the nearly 7 000 m high Sail Peak in the
Background
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Battal (4 012 m) in the Chandra (Chenab)
Valley: The Interior of the Tibetan "Luxury" Hotel in Battal: The Kitchen
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Trek to the Tibetan Border, to the Chandra Tal (Moon Lake) and Kunzum La (Pass)
Trek from Battal (4 012 m) to the Chandra Tal
(4 270 m)(Moon Lake): Near the Tibetan Border (People's Republic of China)
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Chandra Tal (4 270 m)(Moon Lake): Chandra Tal
is one of the Sources of the Chenab River
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The Kunzum La (Pass)(4 650 m) is the Border
between Lahaul and Spiti: The former Tibetan Polity Spiti lies to the East of Lahaul
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The Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries in Spiti
Kaza (3 650 m) is the Capital of Spiti: View
to the West in Direction Kunzum La
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Kaza (3 650 m) is the Capital of Spiti: View
to the East in Direction Tabo
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Tibetan-Buddhist Mani Stones (Om Mani Peme
Hum) in Kaza
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Preparations for a Traditional Tibetan Wedding
in Kaza during the Khasera Festival 2003
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Traditional Tibetan Wedding in Kaza during
the Khasera Festival 2003: The two Clans of the Bride and the Bridegroom compete to each
other with Dancing and Singing, with many Spectators in festive Clothes around
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The Tibetan Buddhist Monastery of Ki Gompa (4 130
m) is situated 15 km west of Kaza. The Gompa is more than one thousand years old and
belonged to the West Tibetan Kingdom of Guge. To-day Ki Gompa belongs to the Tibetan
religious Order of the Gelug-Pa.
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Below the Ki Gompa there is Ki Village with the
Spiti River in the Background which comes from the Kunzum La
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On the Roof of the Ki Gompa
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On the Roof of the Ki Gompa: View to the East in
Direction Kaza with Spiti River
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On the Roof of the Ki Gompa: View to the West in
Direction Kunzum La with Spiti River
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Ki Gompa: Lhakang (Prayer Hall) and Room of the
Big Praying Wheel (Mani Wheel)
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Ki Gompa: Tschörte (Reliquary: Tomb) of one of
the Head Lamas of the Monastery
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Ki Gompa: Lobsang Palden Lama who lives for
Decades in the Monastery. He hails from Tibet and accompanied the Dalai Lama during his
Escape form Tibet in March 1959
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Ki Gompa: Kitchen Lama of the Monastery
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Between Ki Gompa and Kaza: View to the East
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Between Ki Gompa and Kibber: View to the West
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The Tibetan Village Kibber (4 230 m ) is said to
be the highest permanently inhabited Settlement in the World
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The Tibetan Monastery Kibber Gompa (4 350 m)
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Kibber Gompa: A Village Woman turns for one whole
Week the Praying (Mani) Wheel
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Between Kaza and Tabo Gompa: The Spiti River
which flows to the East and joins the Sutlej River near Puh
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Tabo Village (3 050 m): View to the North in
direction of the Tibetan Border
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Tabo Gompa: One of the most important Monasteries
of the Tibeto-Buddhism. The Gompa was built more than 1 000 Years ago in Clay Architecture
and belonged to the West-Tibetan Kingdom of Guge. The Clay Monasteries on the other Side
of the Indo/Tibetan Border were all destroyed during the Chinese Cultural Revolution in
the 1960s and 1970s.
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Tabo Gompa: Centuries old Wood Carvings at the
Entrance Door to the Maitreya Temple (Buddha of the Future)
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Tabo Gompa: Puja (Prayer) Ceremony in the Lhakang
in the early Morning
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Between Tabo Gompa and Dankar
Gompa: View to the East in Direction Tabo and Sutlej Valley towards the Tibetan Border
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Dankar Gompa is like other Spiti Gompas one of
the oldest (maybe the oldest) Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries in Western Tibet (formerly
belonging to the Guge Kingdom). Dankar was also the first Capital of the Spiti Polity
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View from the Dankar Gompa to the East into the
Spiti River Valley and in Direction Tabo and Sutlej Valley towards the Tibetan Border
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Dankar Gompa: The inner Yard of the Monastery
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Dankar Gompa: The Lhakang (Prayer Hall) of the
Monastery
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Dankar Gompa: More than 1 000 Years old Buddhist
Frescoes (Guge Culture) in the Lhakang (Prayer Hall) of the Monastery
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Karen Dierks, née von Bremen, in the
Dankar Gompa
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Trek from Lalung Gompa via Kungri Gompa and Mud and the Great Himalaya Main Range at Tarik La into the Kinnaur (Kafnu)
At Lalung Gompa (4 165 m), near the Tibetan
border, commences our Trek over the Great Himalaya Range from Spiti into the Kinnaur. We
moved in a southerly Direction from Lalung via the Spiti River Valley into the Pin Valley
to Kungri Gompa
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Lalung Gompa is like other Spiti Gompas one of
the oldest Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries in Western Tibet (formerly belonging to the Guge
Kingdom).
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Lalung Gompa: More than 1 000 Years old Buddhist
Frescoes (Guge Culture) in the Lhakang (Prayer Hall) of the Monastery. The
Lhakang has no natural Light Source, therefore my Wife (to the left), Karen
Dierks, née von Bremen, has to keep the Torch in order to focus on the Frescoes (for the
first Time published)
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Lalung Gompa: More than 1 000 Years old Buddhist
Frescoes (Guge Culture) in the Lhakang (Prayer Hall) of the Monastery
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Lalung Gompa: Entrance Hall
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Kungri Gompa is situated in the Pin Valley (in
the Background). The Pin River originates from the Pin Parbati La (5 319 m) which leads
into the Kulu Valley in the West. Kungri Gompa is like other Spiti Gompas one of the
oldest Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries (more than 1 000 Years old) in Western Tibet (formerly
belonging to the Guge Kingdom).
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Kungri Gompa: The Lhakang (Praying Hall)
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Kungri Gompa: More than 1 000 Years old Buddhist
Frescoes (Guge Culture) in the Lhakang (Prayer Hall) of the Monastery: To the Right the
Kanjur (108 Volumes of the Tibetan Buddhist "Bible")
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The Village Mud is the last human Settlement
before we enter the Wilderness of the High Himalayas. The first Village on the other Side
of the Himalaya Main Range is Kafnu in Kinnaur
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View from our Camping Site near Mud to the North
into the Pin Valley with a hair rising Bridge over the Pin River which we just have
crossed
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Our Camping Site near Mud: View to the West into
the Pin Valley with Mud in the Background. Our small Trekking Expedition has one Guide
(Nittin), one Cook, one Assistant Cook, four Porters and four Mules: Photo taken in the
Evening
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Our Camping Site near Mud: View to the West into
the Pin Valley with Mud in the Background. Our small Trekking Expedition has one Guide
(Nittin), one Cook, one Assistant Cook, four Porters and four Mules: Photo taken the next
Morning
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View to the West in Direction Pin
Parbati La (5 319 m)(Right Photograph with our Guide Nittin)
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View to the North in Direction Mud:
With our Mules and some of the Porters
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One of our Camp Sites in the Pin Valley: View to
the West in Direction Pin Parbati La
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View to the North in Direction Mud:
The next Day
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View to the West in Direction Pin
Parbati La
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View to the North in Direction Mud:
With our Mules and some of the Porters
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View to the West in Direction Pin
Parbati La to the Right and to the South to the Tarik La (5 230 m) to the Left
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View to the South to the Tarik La (5 230 m)
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View to the South to the Tarik La (5 230 m)
with our Guide Nittin in the Foreground: In the Background there is the Great
Himalaya Main Range which has to be crossed by us: We are struggling over millions of
constantly rolling Stones our Way up over the Glacier to the Tarik La Base Camp
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Tarik La Base Camp (4 650 m) which
is established on the Tarik Glacier with Night Temperatures to nearly minus 30 Degrees
Celsius. The more serious Symptoms of the High Altitude Sickness are troubling us. The
Morning promises the most difficult Day: The Crossing of the more than 5 000 m high Tarik
La: W. Tilman expressed our feelings more than 60 Years ago: Another miserable Day in the
High Himalayas
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View to the South to the Tarik La (5 230 m): We
have already passed the 5 000 Meter Mark. Every Step means Struggling and Suffering in the
thin Air of the Himalayas. I am only able to do 15 counted Steps and then have to regain
my Breath again, sometimes for five Minutes: Self-Inflicted Torture
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View from the Ascent to Tarik La back to the
North into the Spiti
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We are struggling our Way up the last Couple of
hundred Metres to the Top to the Tarik La
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We reached the Top: Tarik La, 5 230 m between
Spiti and Kinnaur: My Wife, Karen Dierks, née von Bremen, and our Guide, Nittin,
with the Namibian Flag: View to the South into the Kinnaur
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View from the Top of the Tarik La to the North
into the Spiti: "Cha Gyal Lho"
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View from the Top of the Tarik La to the South
into the Kinnaur
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In order to arrive at an Avalanche safe Camping
Site (Fauti) we have to descent more than 1 000 m on the Kinnaur Side. Firstly we have to
negotiate a couple of big Crevasses on the Glacier
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Before we reach Fauti we have to descent over
more than 1 000 Metres of some unstable, permanently moving Moraine Slopes of the Glacier:
View to the South into the Kinnaur
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Our Camping Site of Fauti (4 160 m): View to the
South into the Kinnaur
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The next Shift goes from Fauti (4 160 m) to Lanak
(3 130 m): View to the South into the Kinnaur
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We have to cross numerous ice-cold torrential
Glacier Streams: It is a torturous exercise for our Porters
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View back to the North East in Direction Spiti:
We came down the Glacier Valley to the far Left from Tarik La
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First Glimpse into the forested Kinnaur Valley to
the South in Direction Kafnu and the Sutlej River Valley: Our next Camping Site is one of
the Meadows among nice Trees
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View to the North in Direction Spiti
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In the Average the Tree Limit can be found in the
High Himalayas at around 14 000 Feet (approximately 4 000 m)
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Our Camping Site at Lanak (3 130 m): Our Porters
bake Tschapatis (Indian Bread)
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We are leaving the High Altitude Meadows around 3
000 m and enter the deep Virgin Forests of the Kinnaur in Direction Kafnu
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Also in the deep Forests of the Kinnaur we have
to pass some interesting Bridge Structures over torrential Glacier Streams
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In Kafnu (2 540 m) we have reached the End of our
Trek
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Hinduistic and Buddhist Cultures in the Kinnaur
Chini (2 960 m) is the old Capital of the
Kinnaur-Kings (Maharajas). The new Name (since the Chinese-Indian Border War, 1960) is
Kalpa, because the Indians feared the Chinese could derive a Claim on "Chini".
Since then the Kinnaur Capital has been shifted to Rekong Peo (2 290 m), just below Kalpa.
In the Background is the Sutlej River Valley and behind it the mighty Kinnaur (Kinner)
Kailash Range with more than 6 000 m Altitude. The Kinner Kailash is a holy mountain
for Buddhists and Hindus alike. According to Hindu Mythology the God Shiva has its Winter
Abode on the Peak
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Kalpa's wooden Kinnaur-Architecture reflects the
rich Forests of the Province
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Kalpa's Temples are characterised by both,
Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism
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The more than 1 000 Years old Hinduistic Shiva
Temple in Kalpa
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The Shiva Temple in Kalpa with the Holy Kinner
Kailash (6 050 m) in the Background: View to the East
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Kinnaur Women process the Seed of Pine Trees:
Kalpa: Shiva Temple
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Afternoon View on Kalpa (to the East) and Kinner
Kailash
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A Hinduistic Sadhu (Holy Man) in Kalpa: Ram Raj
Baba
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The Kinner Kailash at Sunset
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The Kinner Kailash at Sunrise
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Back to Spiti and the Tibetan Border at Nako: Along the Sutlej and Spiti Rivers
View into the Sutlej River Gorge in Direction
South
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View into the Sutlej River Gorge near Ribba (2
745 m) in Direction South: Here we leave the Forests of Kinnaur and approach the Desert
Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau and Spiti
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North of Puh (2 837 m) we have entered the barren
Spiti again. There is the Confluence of the Sutlej River (to the right, coming from Tibet
(Kailash)) and the Spiti River to the left
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The Spiti River Gorge: View to the East in
Direction Puh
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View into the Spiti River Gorge to the East
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Above the Spiti River Gorge we have again crossed
the 4 000 Meter Mark: View to the Northwest into Tibet
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The Village Nako (3 662 m) again belongs to the
Tibetan Buddhist Culture and is situated near the Tibetan Border (four Kilometers away
only): View to the West in Direction Tabo
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Village Scenes at Nako: In the right Photography
a young Dzo or Dzomo (Yak)
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Nako Lake: View to the West
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Traditional Tibetan Wedding at Nako
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Traditional Tibetan Wedding at Nako: The Bride
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The Morning after the Wedding: Nako sleeps
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Back from the Tibetan High Plateau into the Forests of Kinnaur: Baspa Valley, Sarahan and Rampur
The Baspa River Valley runs from the Sutlej River
to the East to the Tibetan Border: South of Kinner Kailash: Photography was made east of
Sangla, the Main Settlement in the Baspa Valley: View to the North in Direction Kinner
Kailash
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Sangla: View to the North in Direction Kinner
Kailash
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Sangla: View to the East in Direction Chitkul
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The Fort and the Hindu Temple in Sangla are more
than 1 500 Years old
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At the End of the Baspa River Valley in the East
lies the old Kinnaur Town of Chitkul: View to the East in Direction Tibetan Border
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The wooden Architecture of Chitkul
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The Buddhist Temple of Chitkul
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The Sutlej River Gorge near Wangtu with
Hindustan-Tibet Highway: View to the South in Direction Rampur
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Sunrise over Sarahan (1 920 m): View to the North
into the High Himalaya and the Sutlej Valley
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The Hinduistic Bhima Kali Temple of Sarahan: View
to the North into the High Himalaya (the highest Peak is the Srikhand Mahadev with 5 227
m) and the Sutlej Valley
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The Bhima Kali Temple of Sarahan is more than 1
500 Years old
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Sarahan: Flashback into the Year 1960 The Bhima Kali Temple of Sarahan in the Year
1960: There are no big Hotels, Power Lines, Telecommunications and no Access Road to
Sarahan The old Rural Culture of the Kinnaur with old
Farm Houses in the traditional Architecture which I still saw in 1960 have nearly
disappeared in the Year 2003 Sarahan'1960: A local Hinduistic Goddess is
worshipped by the Kinnaur People |
Rampur in the Sutlej Valley has an Altitude of
only 942 m: View to the South
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Rampur: Flashback into the Year 1960 Rampur in the Sutlej Valley in the Year 1960:
View to the North Rampur'1960: Scenes from the Lavi Trade Fair: A
Major Spectacle in the western Himalaya: November 1960 |
From the Sutlej Valley into Kulu via Jalori Pass and Dharamsala
The Jalori Pass (3 228 m) leads from the
Sutlej Valley into the Beas Valley (Kulu and Manali): View to the North into the Great
Himalaya Range
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The thick Virgin Forests below the Jalori Pass on
the Kulu Side
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Banjar is one of the first Settlements on the
Kulu Side of the Jalori Pass
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Dharamsala (Mc Leod Ganj) is the Seat of the
"Tibet Exile Government" in India: with the exiled Dalai Lama (since 1959): Mc
Leod Ganj lies approximately 1 000 m above Dharamsala (1 387 m): View on Mc Leod Ganj
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The British Grave Yard in Mc Leod Ganj reflects
the colonial Past of the British "Raj": The Cemetery is situated near the Church
of St. John's in the Wilderness
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The Tibetan Buddhist Dip-Tse-Chok-Ling Gompa
remembers the destroyed Monastery with the same Name in Tibet
(south of Lhasa)
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Dip-Tse-Chok-Ling Gompa: The Buddhist
"Dharma Chakra": The Wheel of Life
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View from the Seat of the exiled Dalai Lama, Tsug
Lhakang Temple, on Mc Leod Ganj and the Dhauladar Mountain Range in the Background: View
to the North
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The Temple of the Dalai Lama, Tsug Lhakang: The
Interior of the Lhakang with the Historic Buddha Sakyamuni on the right Photography
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Exiled Tibetans in Dharamsala
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