Hemis National Park
The park houses numerous
Tibetan gompas and holy chortens
within its boundaries.
These include the famous 400-year-old
Hemis Monastery. Hemis was a destination and via point on the silk routes
of Tibet. Over 1,600 people
live inside the park presently,
with a large number of tourists and pilgrims visiting
during the Hemis Tsechu festival.
World famous for being the best place to see the snow leopard in the wild, it is believed to have the highest density
of snow leopards
of any protected
area in the world. It is the only national
park in India north of the Himalayas,
the largest notified
protected area in India (and thus the largest national
park of India),
and is the second largest
contiguous protected area after the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve
and surrounding protected
areas. The park is home to a number of species of endangered mammals
including the snow leopard.
Hemis National Park is India's
only protected area inside the Palearctic ecozone,
outside the Changthang
Wildlife Sanctuary northeast
of Hemis, and the proposed
Tso Lhamo Cold Desert Conservation
Area in North Sikkim .
The park is bounded
on the north by the banks of the Indus River, and includes the cachements of Markha, Sumdah
and Rumbak, and parts of the Zanskar
Range.
This region
is in the rain shadow
of the Himalayas,
and does not receive much precipitation. Hence,
dry forests of juniper, Populus
- Salix forests,
subalpine dry birch - fir are present
at lower altitudes.
You will find alpine and steppe trees predominantly at Hemis High National Park. These trees and shrubs
are spread across
the valley bottoms.
Since the upper mountain slopes
are moist, this area is characterized by alpine vegetation
including: Anemone,Gentiana, Thallctrwn,
Lloydia, Veronica, Delphinum,
Care.x and Kobresia.
The other parts of the park support
steppe vegetation which is dominated
by Caragana, Artemisia,
Stachys, and Ephedra,
present along the lower river courses.
Its a natural park....
ReplyDeleteCute tiger.....
ReplyDeleteSo nice .....
ReplyDelete