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In the midst of western snowy Himalayas at an elevation arounding 7,150 Mts (22,594 ft) from mean sea level (M.S.L), lying between 77 degree Latitude, 33 degree longitude are situated Zanskar Mountains Range intervening Deosai Mountains to its North-West and Bara Lacha La to its South-East encompassing snowy glaciers with enchanting valleys in her lap in and around the vicinity of Kargil (the most prominent), Chorbat pass, Lamayutru, Rupshu to the North and Dras, Amarnath ji-sanctum sanctorum, Nun and Umas La to the south. And so charming and hunting are honey-dewed Deosai plains, Just below Deosal Mountains, where one can most conveniently attribute, a piece of heaven, though, of course, mistakingly fallen over hereby the almighty Gods and Goddese. And then river Sindh off-shooting from lake Mansarovar serpentingly crowing up and thence down is the rarer of the rarest rai rivers routes adapality. Is it not astonishing to every human, who so ever glimpses even through google indeed? Yes, one becomes wonder struck beyond any shadow of doubt and all this finds their allusions in the most popular Rajatarangrini by Kalhana. Rightly has thus remarked by Dr.EF Neve, Ancient India has nothing more worthy of its remote civilization than the grand remains of Kashmir which though inferior to Palmya or Persepolis in statelineship, are in possession of beauty so immensely superior to either

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Arrounding 20 Kms to the south, Rangdum finds its existence of Pazila, in the words also nomenclaturised as Panzita, Top perched upon some 4400 mts from Mean sea level (M.S.L) and while crossing this beautious watershed, lies the most prominent Zanskar, defacto, the most secluded of almost all the Trans-Himalayan Valleys. The meadow tableland is the rarer of the rarest pictureque velvety spot with milky clouds wafting the azure sky and as the road winds down the steepy slopes towards the head of Stod Valley, one becomes wonder struck viewing the most enchanting and haunting the main tributory valleys of Zanskar the mighty and the majestic Drang-Drung,glacier which looms large into its fullest view.

Rigveda as such echoes, If any one is greater than the other,then that does not mean that he has extra bodily organs, but he is greater because of his intellect and mind and, of course, have become enlightened and complete by real education. And so true is with majestic and mighty Zanskar where the narrow snowy uplands extend far and wide for miles and miles in their togetherness far hills which sarround the Sindh river where all the slopes, its steeps and meadow are covered with milk-white snow with a minuscule of honey-dewed herbs and shrubs and further where rushing silvery streams, with nectar clear water outflows, it is here in the interiors of Zanskar which courses through splendid scenery of sylvanite splendour.

Zanskar comprises of a tri armed (three armed valley, a system which is lying between the greater Himalayan Range vis-a-vis Zanskar lofty mountains having similarity of snow-capped high-altitudinal clifts and as on the date occupies its own uniqueness and appropriate placements of prominency, apart from its seculadedness and to the least interferring with Ladhak as a whole in so far as microcosmical phenomenon is concerned. And of course, some of the religious endowments have, de facto, evolved with revolving wheel of time over the remote past in which way the prominent caves have been taken use of transmigration to transcendentalism and meditate which though ambiguously is hyphothetical insofaras it goes to the eminency of Buddhists saints and sages.

Down the ages, Chinese pilgrims of whom Hiuen Tsang is a living legend in our olden yet golden scripts who has transversed Leh, Ladhak, Kargal and Zanskar around seventeenth century was imminently been captivated by the lovely and enchanting beauty of Zanskar amongest other paradisical places, And then Kailasa and its surrounds including Zanskar, is the best place the world, over first the greater snowy Himalayas, next the vale of Kashmir also nomenclaturised as paradise on mother Earth, as thus written and reflected by Kalhana, in his historical treatise Rajatarangni A century and a half ego, french authorities deputed their most prominant Naturalist and botanist by name Victor Jacquenment to go as a travelling naturalist, preferably to the interiors of greater Himalayas and in his monumental collection of data from greater Himalayas was letter published after his death in six quarlo volumes added considerably the beauties of the greater Himalayas of Leh, Ladhak, Kargal and Zanskar, preferably the immensive importance of rich, vide, varied manifestation of flora and fauna recorded in everyday language much of what he noticed and experienced.

Undeniably,therefore, it is on record as per the latest survey conducted by wildlife department that there are on this date as many as Zoo black bears out of which 80% exists in Zanskar a lane one are rest are spreaded over the rest of Himalayan region to our part of territory, apart from many more varied flora and fauna in the greater part of the Himalayas and its surrounds,Conclusively, therefore, it is unambiguously no delaying the fact that if our pride The greater Himalaya is the crown of India, Zanskar is doubtless a golden feather in it and in the ultimate analysis, add here an important quote of our reversed guruji, Sh. Tagore, He lies lost who confines himself to his own self, he attains self-expression who realises himself in all.