faces of Zanskar

In another blog entry I introduced nilam e.V. as the charity partner of the Ladakh Winter 2014/15 project. Nina, the founder of this NGO provides me a mass of wonderful photos, some of them I want to share with you:

note: all pics shown on this side are property of Nina, founder of Nilam e.V.

Nina shows selected pictures on her beautiful exhibition ´Views from Ladakh´, if you are interested in hosting this exhibition or if you want to purchase a copy please feel free to cantact Nina: kontakt@nilam.de

the saltmen of Tibet- a documentary

Long time ago, while roaming the tourist market in Dharamsala/ India I found this great documentary about salt harvesters of Tibet.

A group of nomads head out to the saltlakes into the Chang Tang in Tibet to harvest salt to trade it for other goods of daily needs. This movie shows the annual trip involving a strict ritual of worship and hard work placed into an unbelievable scenery.

Enjoy it!

Here´s part one:

part2

part3

part4

himalayan roadsigns part3- the Sikkim section

Here´s another load of that famous yellow signs, this part features the Project Swastik, which is operating and responsible for the Sikkim roads.

Their effort to keep the traffic flowing might affect the success for the new project, so lets pay some tribute for the awesome work they do:

Vacation time

from tomorrow on I’ll walk around this mountain range…