Hello Syzygy

Given its commanding location, Baltit fort is an impressive site.

Every time I view Hunza, I'm impressed anew at the diligence of its inhabitants. All of the green, the terraces, the waterworks, are manmade. It takes really skilled engineering to construct watercourses from the outlets of glaciers to the land to be irrigated.

Lahul is another of my interests. If you're able to find overlays for the Chenab, from its start at the confluence of the Chandra and Bhaga, all the way to Kishtwar, I'd be greatly obliged. Udaipur, on the northern bank, has a remarkable 13th century temple, the Mirkula, and Triloknath, on a crest to the south of the Chenab, some four miles before Udaipur, has remarkable 12th century and 16th century images of Avalokiteshvara, the expression of the Buddha's compassion Tibetan: Chenresig). There's another remarkable temple at Gandhola, high on the mountainside above the confluence of Chandra & Bhaga, across from Tandi.

Salutations, Adrian