23-24 January 2018, near Leh, Ladakh.
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(Ladakh Trip).
Links go to posts with the colour versions of the images (where there may also be more information). If an image does not have a link (or a caption), the preceding one applies.
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(The linked article with the colour images includes Brief Histories of both Tibet and Ladakh).
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Dawn prayers.
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Mountains with radical folding, on the way to Hemis Monastery.
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Stakna Monastery.
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Ice on the Indus.
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Hemis Monastery.
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Views on the way from Hemis Monastery to Alchi Monastery.
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Confluence of the rivers Indus (below) and Zanskar.
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Murray Foote 
That monastery is incredible.
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Essentially unchanged for many hundreds of years, I would think.
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Beautiful images Murray.
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Thanks very much Leonard.
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