Gallery · 17 photographs
Along the Indus between Khaltse and Batalik, ancient Brokpa villages emerge as pockets of green against an otherwise barren gorge. The people here are Buddhist Dards, with their own Brokskat language and traditions that preserve echoes of beliefs older than Buddhism itself. Apricot orchards, sacred trees and flower-crowned ceremonial headdresses belong to a culture that has endured for centuries in one of Ladakh’s most isolated valleys.
