{"id":22708,"date":"2017-06-08T03:26:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T03:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/?p=22708"},"modified":"2017-06-25T07:08:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T07:08:23","slug":"ladakh-india-scouting-trip-post-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/ladakh-india-scouting-trip-post-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladakh, India: Scouting Trip, Post #5"},"content":{"rendered":"

More images from my recent Ladakh scouting trip. The\u00a0following photos include images of Buddhist monks, Buddhist nuns and local people wearing traditional Ladakhi dress. Additionally, there are several shots of\u00a0the fascinating and welcoming Aryan people who live in several remote villages.<\/p>\n

In each community, monastery and ethnic group that we explored\u00a0in\u00a0Ladakh\u00a0we found fascinating, friendly, curious, photogenic people. One of the most interesting opportunities we had was to visit several Aryans. The Aryans live in several villages, situated on the northern bank of Indus river on the road to Baltistan. In these\u00a0communities, which for thousands of years have been\u00a0in isolation, are the Aryans. People with\u00a0distinct features \u2013 tall in stature, with green eyes, high cheek bone, fair with flawless skin even some with blonde hair. These people consider themselves to be the pure bloodline of the Aryans, perhaps even direct descendants from the Alexander\u2019s Army, some of whom reportedly stayed back after Alexander abandoned his campaign at the banks of river Indus in 326 BC. They do not marry outside of their tight knit community.<\/p>\n

For our 2018 photo tours in Ladakh<\/a>,\u00a0we’ll be including excursions to interact, photograph and speak with these unique groups. \u00a0Meanwhile enjoy these 25 pictures….<\/p>\n

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More images from my recent Ladakh scouting trip. The\u00a0following photos include images of Buddhist monks, Buddhist nuns and local people wearing traditional Ladakhi dress. Additionally, there are several shots of\u00a0the fascinating and welcoming Aryan people who live in several remote villages. In each community, monastery and ethnic group that we explored\u00a0in\u00a0Ladakh\u00a0we found fascinating, friendly, curious, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35,151],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22708"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22850,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22708\/revisions\/22850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}