{"id":10381,"date":"2014-11-01T09:12:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T03:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/?p=10381"},"modified":"2014-11-01T09:12:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T03:42:27","slug":"winter-ladakh-hot-springs-chhangthang-plateau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/winter-ladakh-hot-springs-chhangthang-plateau.html","title":{"rendered":"Winter Ladakh &#8211; Hot Springs of Chhangthang Plateau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes nature creates things that appear weird to us. Today&#8217;s photo is\u00a0hot-springs of Ladakh in winter covered by an ice-shell!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/hot-spring-ladakh-winter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10382\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/hot-spring-ladakh-winter.jpg\" alt=\"Hot springs of Chhangthang Plateau, Ladakh, in winter\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/hot-spring-ladakh-winter.jpg 900w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/hot-spring-ladakh-winter-640x426.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We found these curious hot-springs during our wanderings in the high-altitude Chhangthang Plateau, Ladakh, d<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">uring the winter months. Even when the outside temperature remains below zero and drops to -30 at night time, these geysers continue to spit boiling-hot water. Much of the water flows down as a stream, but a few droplets that fall away are instantly turned into snow. The result is this beautiful cone that forms a shell around the spring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ruddy-shelducks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10384\" style=\"margin-right: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ruddy-shelducks.jpg\" alt=\"Ruddy Shelduck\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" align=\"left\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ruddy-shelducks.jpg 900w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ruddy-shelducks-640x413.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We were able to hear the sound of gushing hot-water inside the ice-cone. The insides are even more beautiful with icicles hanging on the ice-wall and a sulphurous smoke rising from its belly. Beauty PLUS fascination!<\/p>\n<p>Some birds take advantage of these hot-springs. We saw ducks enjoying the stream of warm waters made by these springs. Ruddy shelducks, which generally migrate to lower altitudes in winter, were enjoying staying back here in a small flock. The avian population in the area was unusually dense for winter months in Ladakh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes nature creates things that appear weird to us. Today&#8217;s photo is\u00a0hot-springs of Ladakh in winter covered by an ice-shell! We found these curious hot-springs during our wanderings in the high-altitude Chhangthang Plateau, Ladakh, during the winter months. Even when the outside temperature remains below zero and drops to -30 at night time, these geysers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[459,462,461,521,460],"class_list":["post-10381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ladakh","tag-chhangthang","tag-geysers","tag-hot-springs","tag-ladakh","tag-winter-ladakh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xrJt-2Hr","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10386,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10381\/revisions\/10386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}