Pangong Tso Photo | TrekEarth

Photographer’s Note

What would you expect to see when you get to the highest lake in Ladakh that is situated at a height of 4,250m and stretches into Tibet for way over 120km? Well, the Pangong Tso is all that and more. Pangong Tso literally means ‘hollow lake’. The sometimes emerald-green and sometimes midnight-blue pool of water, with shores covered in foliage that one could spend hours exploring, is girdled by soaring peaks as high as 6,500m. You have to cross the Chang La (Pass) at a height of 5,599m to get to the lake. Be prepared for a ‘not exactly smooth’ tours as some stretches are rather backbreaking. You will cross the villages of Durbuk, and Tangste that has a small temple.

You could stay at the campsite in Mugleb. Situated at a distance of about 150km from Leh, Spangmic is the last village you are allowed to touch according to the guidelines of the permit. You could try your hand at riding a yak at one of the villages and pretend to be a highland bloke

delkoo, avis2avis, sabyasachi1212, ramesh_lalwani has marked this note useful

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delkoo (34754) 2006-06-28 6:04

hi chanjit
today you show us a nice landscape, this lake seems very important, good POV and DOF.

WITH REGARDS
didier

Gustaw (21670) 2006-06-28 13:11

Hallo dear friend!
Very interesting view, your photo it is nice postcard.
Marek

sabyasachi1212 (19546) 2006-06-28 15:03

Hi Chanjit,
Having been to Pangong Tso I really feel sorry that you didn't get the blesing of the weather god. On a sunny day Pangong is a photographer's dream come true, with blue sky, green meadows and changing colour of the lake water. You got a good low angle view but the picture is a little dull because of the cloud cover.
Greetings
Sabyasachi

ramesh_lalwani (3209) 2006-06-28 19:43

Hi chanjit
Very beautiful scene.You got clear water and lovely reflection.I had a print of the place but not good so did not post.I hope you have some more of lake and places enroute.TFS
ramesh

sid (228) 2006-06-29 1:10

Lovely scenic view. Would have been amazing with 10-22mm len.
Did you use do the levels while editing? or the blue all over the picture is natural.

Dragonheart (8393) 2006-07-02 2:57

Hi Chanjit,
WONDERFUL shot Chanjit!, what a view, I missed lot of your shots. Excellent composition, I a little more contrast would have made this a super shot.Regards,
Vivek

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hello_ishan (1571) 2006-07-03 7:37

Hi Chanjit,
I like the scene; it’s very beautiful. Water is very clean & I like the reflection it’s great. Congrats.

Srinivasan

mishreyee (0) 2006-07-05 0:32

Hi Chanjit!
This is fascinating photo with almost crystal-clear water of Pangong...now it will be my dream to visit the place someday.... sometime...
regards,
Mishreyee