Ladakh is a land filled with breathtaking physical features, set in an massive and spectacular environment. Bounded by two of the world's mightiest mountain ranges, the Karakoram in the north and the Great Himalaya in the south, it is traversed by two other parallel chains, the Ladakh Range and the Zanskar Range .

Ladakh is also known as top most desert in the world, protected from the rain-bearing clouds of the Indian monsoon by the barrier of the Great Himalaya, Ladakh was once enclosed by an widespread lake system, the vestiges of which still exist on its south-east plateaux of Rupshu and Chushul, in the drainage basins or lakes of Tso-moriri, Tso-kar and Pangong-tso. But the main source of water is winter snowfall.

Dras, Zanskar and the Suru Valley on the Himalaya's northern flanks obtain heavy snow in winter, this nourish the glaciers from which melt water, carried down by streams, irrigates the fields in summer. For the rest of the region, the snow on the peaks is nearly the only source of water. As the crops grow, the villagers pray not for rain, but for sun to melt the glaciers and liberate their water.


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