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Kartse Khar
The Kartse Khar is an ancient
village with a 7 m tall rock carved statue of Maitriya Buddha. All
this is evidence of the presence of Buddhist community in the
valley in the past. There are many other rock carved statues and
stupas around in Suru valley.
Panikhar
Panikhar is the
best station for undertaking mountaineering expeditions to the
various Peaks surrounded the valley. Tanyol, the approach base for
climbing Mt. Nun, is just 6 Kms. further up the valley along the
road. A short walk up the hill slopes from here takes one across
the Sentik Ridge to the base camp on the rim of the ice plateau.
Another very interesting hike is to the Nun- Kun view saddle
(3810m) in the Parkachik ridge. This requires 3 hours of walking
along verdant slopes overlooking the fertile valley below.
Drass
Drass is around
60 kms to the west of Kargil on the road to Srinagar. The place
has beautiful pasture grounds. Drass is the second coldest
inhabited place in the world, where the temperature goes as low as
- 50 in winter.
Drass has become famous in recent years because of Pakistan’s
misadventure in the Tiger hill and Tolloling areas. One can have a
lovely view of Tiger hill from Drass village.
Drass’s inhabitants consist mainly of the Dards stock, an Aryan
race believed to have originally migrated to these villages of the
western Himalaya from central Asian steppes. They speak Shina,
which is very much unlike the Ladakhi dialects spoken elsewhere in
the Ladakh region. The favorite pass time of the inhabitants of
Drass is Polo
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