Highest Altitude:
3,750m
Duration: 12 Nights and 13 Days
The name of India itself is a corruption
of the word Sindhu. Arabians pronounced ‘s’ as ‘h’
and called India Hindustan, the land of Hindus. Greeks pronounced
Sindhu as In
dus,
and so the name India. Sindhu is the oldest name in Indian
history as well in Indian geography. When Shiva carried the immolated
body of his divine consort Sati over all the land, her skull-top
with its hingula (sindur) fell at what has been Hinglaj ever since.
It is near Karachi on the Sindh–Baluchistan border. To this
holy spot—sanctified by the visit of Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana—went
the great Sindhi Sufi poet-saint Shah Abdul Latif in the company
of yogis.
Through the Indus valley
and the ancient kingdom of Sham, we will discover the
main Ladakhi monasteries and the wonderful sites surrounding them:
Shey, Thiksey, Hemis, Spitok, Phyang, Lamayuru and Alchi are all
accessible by road, and Temisgang, Ridzong and Likir line the
trekking route. This itinerary is of moderate difficulty
and the path does not rise above 4500m. The trail crosses numerous
villages where the people have kept their Tibetan ways and customs.