{"id":10503,"date":"2014-11-26T11:45:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T06:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/?p=10503"},"modified":"2014-11-26T11:46:22","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T06:16:22","slug":"ladakh-winter-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/ladakh-winter-landscape.html","title":{"rendered":"Ladakh &#8211; Winter Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have made a few visits to Ladakh in winter months. Having walked the empty lanes of <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/leh-ladakh-winter.html\">winter&#8217;s Leh<\/a>,\u00a0admired\u00a0the frozen high-altitude lakes, <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/chadar-trek-2.html\">walked over a frozen Zanskar River<\/a>, gawked at the blue Indus flowing\u00a0between frozen ice-ribbons and seeing the endless snowfields in the high Chhangthang Plateau, I can safely say that Ladakh in cold days is\u00a0among the\u00a0finest landscapes that can be found anywhere India. Being there, however,\u00a0is not for everyone as the temperatures regularly go as low as -30C. Here is an image of a small stretch of this beautiful landscape of Chhangthang Plateau in Ladakh.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/winter-ladakh-landscape.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10504\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/winter-ladakh-landscape.jpg\" alt=\"Winter Landscapes of Ladakh\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/winter-ladakh-landscape.jpg 900w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/winter-ladakh-landscape-640x426.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have made a few visits to Ladakh in winter months. Having walked the empty lanes of winter&#8217;s Leh,\u00a0admired\u00a0the frozen high-altitude lakes, walked over a frozen Zanskar River, gawked at the blue Indus flowing\u00a0between frozen ice-ribbons and seeing the endless snowfields in the high Chhangthang Plateau, I can safely say that Ladakh in cold days [&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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[27,157],"tags":[521,158],"class_list":["post-10503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ladakh","category-photos","tag-ladakh","tag-photo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xrJt-2Jp","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10503","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=10503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10506,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10503\/revisions\/10506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}