Himalayas: Best backpacking destination in the world
India has the most glorious crown on its northern part which is the Himalayas. Himalayas, the greatest mountain range in Asia is filled with many ecstasies. Right from snow filled peaks to the steeper valleys and the never ending lush greeneries along the terraces complemented with the rugged paths, the Himalayas brings the best choice for a thrilling visit to its vast ranges spread at different areas of India, Nepal and Bhutan and trekking could be the best part for exploring these amazements in the valleys. The Himalayas has been the best choice for trekking in India and is the closest part of exploring the rugged and unexplored ways through it. The Himalayan ranges offer different trekking routes at its different breathtaking locations for a complete enthusiastic experience.
The Himalayas which is blessed with numerous glorious mountain peaks where Mount Everest is the highest among them; offer different trekking opportunities. These trekking will take you to the different ranges and regions of Himalayan altitudes including the treks of Garhwal, Ladakh, Sikkim, Himachal, Kumaon and Jammu & Kashmir (Leh Ladakh) and among these options making your choice of India trekking tour can really be difficult, since you will find plentiful of trekking routes and options and your desires will really receive a boon.
The Himalayas, also Himalaya which literally means, "Abode of the snow" is a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The Himalayan range is home to some of the planet's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest. The Himalayas include over a hundred mountains exceeding 7,200 metres (23,600 ft) in height. By contrast, the highest peak outside Asia—Aconcagua, in the Andes— is 6,961 metres (22,838 ft) tall. The Himalayas have profoundly shaped the cultures of South Asia. Many Himalayan peaks are sacred in both Hinduism and Buddhism.
Besides the Greater Himalayas of these high peaks there are parallel lower ranges. The first foothills, reaching about a thousand meters along the northern edge of the plains, are called the Sivalik Hills or Sub-Himalayan Range. Further north is a higher range reaching two to three thousand meters known as the Lower Himalayan or Mahabharat Range. The Himalayas abut or cross five countries: Bhutan, India, Nepal, China, and Pakistan, with the first three countries having sovereignty over most of the range. The Himalayas are bordered on the northwest by the Karakoram and Hindu Kush ranges, on the north by the Tibetan Plateau, and on the south by the Indo-Gangetic Plain.
Three of the world's major rivers, the Indus, the Ganges, and the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra all raise near Mount Kailash to cross and encircle the Himalayas. Their combined drainage basin is home to some 600 million people. Lifted by the subduction of the Indian tectonic plate under the Eurasian Plate, the Himalayan range runs, west-northwest to east-southeast, in an arc 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi) long. Its western anchor, Nanga Parbat, lies just south of the northernmost bend of Indus river, its eastern anchor, Namcha Barwa, just west of the great bend of the Tsangpo river. The range varies in width from 400 kilometres (250 mi) in the west to 150 kilometres (93 mi) in the east.
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