Introduction

For centuries the forbidden land of Ladakh has been unknown and otherwise inaccessible to rest of the world. Ancient explorers from Europe and Asia visited Ladakh taking several months of harsh travel in subzero temperature through this tough terrain;  just to find aLittle Tibet hidden in the vast of this difficult and barren land. The first recorded arrival was in the seventh century A.D. the great Buddhist pilgrim explorer Hsuan Tsang  followed by in later the famous Russian artist and explorer Nicholas Roerich, famous treasure seekers and explorer Sir Aural Stein and Von Le Cog or the British Explorer Moorcroft of whom the Moorcroft route is till today famous in his name.

The ancient path of silk route has been for centuries a much significant-pivotal point for all the traders between the central Asia, Afghanistan, China and India which passed through the Nubra Valley of Ladakh.

Via Tso Moriri Lake