So here I am at the top of the world... In Leh, which consists of shops, advertising their ware as 'Useless Wali' or 'More Rubbish Upstairs', travel agents, hotels and restaurants... In the middle of this is the former Royal Palace of the Kings of Ladakh, which has seen better days... Yes tourism has reached up to the stars... How did I get here? Why did I come? I suppose I was lured up here like everybody else by the stories of the generosity of it's people, the endless skies, the immense landscapes... And in part it is all true... The people are kind, the landscapes are amazing and the skies are blue... But mass tourism has also arrived with all it's evils... And I am part of it... And thus, if you have little time
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