{"id":690,"date":"2009-10-18T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T22:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guyshachar.com\/content\/?p=690"},"modified":"2016-07-24T09:01:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T07:01:35","slug":"panoramas-of-ladakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/2009\/panoramas-of-ladakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Panoramas of Ladakh India &#8211; Presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ladakh (&#8220;Land of high passes&#8221;) is a region situated in north India in the Great Himalayas mountain range area. It is one of the most sparsely populated regions of the Indian subcontinent. Ladakh is renowned for its remote mountain beauty and culture. Historically it was a Buddhist kingdom, and the strong Tibetan influence gave it the nickname &#8220;Little Tibet&#8221;. \u000bLadakh is a high altitude desert as the Himalayas create a rain shadow, denying entry to monsoon clouds. The main source of water is the winter snowfall on the mountains. The Indus river forms the backbone of Ladakh. The extreme terrain and climate, as well as the unique way of life developed in Ladakh, form a magical magnet to travelers.<\/p>\n<p>To download the presentation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guyshachar.com\/Ladakh_Panoramas_Guy.pps\">click here<\/a>. It is recommended to save the presentation before opening it.<\/p>\n<h3>Excerpts and photos that were not included in the presentation<\/h3>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ladakh in north India, a high altitude desert, is renowned for its remote mountain beauty and culture. The strong Tibetan influence gave it the nickname &#8220;Little Tibet&#8221;. The extreme terrain and climate, as well as the unique way of life developed in Ladakh, form a magical magnet to travelers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[22,29,38,47,51,59],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia","category-india","tag-desert","tag-geology","tag-mountains","tag-rural","tag-snow","tag-water"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3943,"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/3943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}