Nubra Valley

The Nubra Valley is a high mountain to an average of 3000 m above sea level and located in the extreme northern India about 150 km north of Leh, Ladakh (Jammu and Kashmir ). The name should be attributed to the word Ldumra, the valley of flowers. The Nubra Valley is made up of the valley of the wild, 550 km long Shyok to the India-Pakistan border ( Line of Control ) and the Valley of fed from the Siachen Glacier in the Karakoram Nubra, which opens at Diskit in the Shyok.

The Shyok rises on the eastern side of the southern Karakorum and flows around this initially in a southerly, from the Shyok Arch in northwestern direction. In Pakistan, the river flows into the Indus. Southwest of the Nubra - Shyok and Indus valley between the Ladakh Range lies. The Karakorumpass connects the Nubra Shyok on the headwaters of the eastern belongs to China Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. He is now as a trade no longer relevant.

The wide valley landscape is often overgrown with buckthorn. The population consists of Ladakhern. Most are Buddhists, one in the far west before the Shyok the Line of Control crosses, living Baltic minority consists of Muslims of the Shia and Sunni.

Tourism

The valley can be reached only through the Kardung La Pass from Leh. A crossing of the Shyoktals from pakistan Saxon Indus is not permissible due to the Indian-Pakistani border conflict. Point of interest for tourists are the many Buddhist monasteries (especially the high-altitude Diskit Gompa ). In the north bubble at Panamik hot springs, tries where a swimming will build. Downstream of Diskit can be ridden on locally occurring camels on the sand dunes on the Shyok.