The valley has a wide variety of fruits like apple and apricot, vegetable and grains. The valley has several large and beautiful villages such as Deskit, Hundar, Tirit, Sumur and Panamik. The village of Panamik is also famous for hot springs known for curing diseases. These villages have five big monasteries and ten small ones, out of which 500 year old Deskit Monastery is the oldest monastery, Smur Gompa is 250 years old and next is the monastery of Samasthangling. The valley is also famous for the double humped Bactarian Camels. Though now very few in numbers, they remind one of the Silk Route days as their performance on the mountain trails (except on glaciers) was excellent. It carried loads as heavy as 300 kg on the mountain trails of Kun – Lun and the Karakoram. Every year around 10,000 horses are said to have passed through Nubra over Karakoram Pass and Kun- Lun into Kashgar and Yarkand. Nubra remained one of the busiest places during the Silk Route days.