Himalayan India
June 22nd 2008 Friday 20 June
Today we drove to Alchi 70km from Leh over a sandy dessert area with barren mountains on all sides. The road was being repaired in many areas, a perpetual job, which meant diversions into the surrounding dessert over even bumpier surfaces.
We made a detour to visit the 12th Century Likir Monastery in a green valley set up above the Indus valley, with a 74ft gold painted stat
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