Original: It is the only national park in India north of the Himalayas , the largest notified protected area in India ( and thus the largest national park of India ) , and is the second largest contiguous protected area after the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve and surrounding protected areas .
Simplified: Hemis National Park ( or Hemis High Altitude National Park ) is a high altitude National Park in the Eastern Ladakh area of the state of Jammu and Kashmir in India .