Hospital
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| location | Himachal Pradesh , India | |
| Waters | Spiti (river) | |
| Mountains | Himalayas | |
| Geographical location | 32 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ N , 78 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| height | 3800 m | |
The hospital is a mountain valley in the Himalayas in the northeast of Himachal Pradesh in India . The name "Spiti" means "the middle country", that is, the land between Tibet and India.
The valley is strongly shaped by a Buddhist culture similar to that in Tibet and Ladakh . The valley and its surroundings are one of the most sparsely populated regions in India. It is in the Lahaul and Spiti districts . The administrative center is Kaza , which is located on the Spiti at an altitude of 3800 m.
Culture
The hospital is a center of Buddhism. Noteworthy are the Kye Monastery and the Tabo Monastery . The monasteries in the valley served as the backdrop for the films Paap and Milarepa . Some monks also appear in the film.
Spiti is the summer home of hundreds of semi-nomadic Gaddi who graze their sheep and goats in the valley. You come to the valley in summer and leave it when the first snow falls.
traffic
The valley can be reached by road from Manali or Keylong via Rohtang Pass or Kunzum Pass .
The connection of the valley to the north is interrupted by snow and ice for up to eight months. The southern connection is temporarily interrupted by winter storms from November to June, but is usually re-established after a few days. This connection leads via Shimla, the Satluj valley to the Kinnaur district .
Travelers who do not come from India need an Inner Line Permit to get from Kinnaur to the hospital, as one comes close to the Sino-Indian border.
See also
literature
- Jonathan Ciliberto: Six Weeks in the Spiti Valley. Circle B Press, Atlanta 2013, ISBN 978-0-9659336-6-7 .
- AH Francke: Antiquities of Indian Tibet. 2 volumes. Calcutta 1914, 1926. Reprinted in 1972: S. Chand, New Delhi.
- Harish Kapadia: Spiti: Adventures in the Trans-Himalaya. ( Memento of July 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 2nd edition, Indus Publishing Company, New Delhi 1999, ISBN 81-7387-093-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kapadia: Spiti: Adventures in the Trans-Himalaya. 1999, p. 209.
- ↑ a b Himachal Tourism - Lahaul & Spiti District . In: Department of Tourism & Civil Aviation, Government of Himachal Pradesh . Archived from the original on June 10, 2008. Retrieved September 28, 2008.