Leh
July 31st 2007 18-31 July
After resting for a few days from the overnight bus trip to Manali I jumped into a share jeep for a 20-hour ride to Leh, the historic capital of Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas.
Ladakh is a very, very arid place with a blistering summer sun and one of the coldest winters on the planet. The Ladakhis basically work and grow crops for four months out of the year and then "eat and sleep
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