If you didn't know this was the Leh Fort, the way the shot was taken, you wouldn't know there was a small city tucked down there in the valley. It looks so desolate and outside the villages and greenery around the rivers, it is a dry, desolate terrain, but a beautiful one for that starting at 3500m above sea level.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/56796376@N00">McKay Savage</a> from London, UK
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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mckaysavage/3844470149/">India - Ladakh - Leh - 062 - Leh Fort overlooking a lonely expanse</a>