Moto Journals — Nubra Valley

The fifth in a seven-part series. Catch up with Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4. Atop the rocky outcrop above Hunder stands a temple whose heavy wooden doors have been sealed shut, with a silk ribbon run through the handles. Below, a white river plunges out of a cliff and crashes into a sluice, which steers it alongside the mountain and pours into to the canals that feed the oasis village below.