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Leh, Capitol of Ladakh
Old town with Mosque (right), King's Palace (left) and Monastery on the hill
The Leh Valley
the Leh valley, jammed in between the Himalayas to the South and the Karakorum to the North
Leh's finest Bakery
Tibetan Buddhism
Prayerwheels and stupas (shrines) everywhere - in all sizes...
Inside a monastery
...and give us our daily water
Water is scarse in the Himalayan high-desert
smelly streetcorners...
it's India, after all...
Desert at 12,000ft
Amazing: sand dunes in the Himalayas
Desert Dwellers
Having some fun...
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Overland from Kashmir to Ladakh
The road leads through territory claimed by both India and Pakistan. The army presence is massive.
Kashmiri people
community life after Friday's mosque
Road maintanance
army bulldozer clearing away a landslide
Nothing for the squimish...
Cutting across the Himalayas on daring roads
Behind the Himalayas
Ladakh is situated geographically North of the Great Himalayan mountain range, high up on the Tibetan Plateau
Monastery
some 10 percent of Ladakh's population lives in monasteries
Ladakhi women
in the land of the ever-spinning prayerwheels
Leh Palace
living in the shadow of the authorities....
Old Culture
some of the monasteries are hundreds of years old
The Indus River
one of the sacred Himalayan rivers