Zanskar Tourism, Jammu & Kashmir India
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Zanskar Fast Facts
- State: Jammu & Kashmir
- District: Kargil
- Famous for/as: Scenic, Trekking,Rafting,Montesy,River
- Altitude: 4950m
- Language: Ladakhi, Hindi
- Best Season: Jun - Sep
- Weather: Summer 5 to 40°C, Winter -14 to 24°C
- Clothing: Though the summer days are pleasant, nights can be quite cold in Zanskar, hence it is advisable that you carry your wollen clothes no matter which time of the year you are travelling to Zanskar. Also, carry a pair of sturdy shoes, a good camera and lots o
- Local Transport:
- Pincode: 19410x
- STDCode: 01985
Zanskar Info
Tourist Reception Centre – Kargil: Telephone: 01985 - 232721/232328
Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council, District Kargil, Jammu and Kashmir – Office Phone: 01985 – 232216.
Jammu &Kashmir Tourism Department Centre: Telephone: [91-1954] 254-507, 254-424
National Informatics Centre – Srinagar: Telephone: Ph. 0194-2472580, 2452182
National Informatics Centre – Jammu: OO91-191-2579627
Zanskar, India Overview
Zanskar is a subdistrict or tehsil of the Kargil district, which lies in the eastern half of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. The administrative centre is Padum. Zanskar, together with the neighbouring region of Ladakh, was briefly a part of the kingdom of Guge in Western Tibet.
The Zanskar Range is a mountain range in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir that separates Zanskar from Ladakh. Geologically, the Zanskar Range is part of the Tethys Himalaya, an approximately 100-km-wide synclinorium formed by strongly folded and imbricated, weakly metamorphosed sedimentary series. The average height of the Zanskar Range is about 6,000 m (19,700 ft). Its eastern part is known as Rupshu.
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Zanskar, India History
The first traces of human activity in Zanskar seem to go back as far as the Bronze Age. Petroglyphs attributed to that period suggest that their creators were hunters on the steppes of central Asia, living between Kazakhstan and China. It is suspected that an Indo-European population known as the Mon might then have lived in this region, before mixing with or being replaced by the next settlers, the Dards. Early Buddhism coming from Kashmir spread its influence in Zanskar, possibly as early as 200 BC. The earliest monuments date from the Kushan period. After this eastward propagation of Buddhism, Zanskar and large parts of the Western Himalaya were overrun in the 7th century by the Tibetans, who imposed their then animistic Bön religion.