In the heart of 'Little Tibet' - Leh Photo 12

In the heart of 'Little Tibet' - Leh

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September 3rd 2012
Sitting high in the Indian Himalayas Ladakh is a piece of Tibet outside of Tibet. Leh is at it's heart. After almost 14 hours the four of us staggered out of the jeep at Leh jeep stand, tired, with bodies battered and heads aching. In Keylong the night before we had met an older guy at the place we had dinner who comes every year to Leh (well tries to - in 2010 massive landslides meant that ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more