Leh Sunset

Leh, after 24H of sleep...

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October 9th 2013
Slowly waking up. We're still out of breath at this altitude but we're going to walk around a bit. Today I didn't take any pictures, so pictures are Nadja Dumann copyrighted ;-) Ladakh is a Buddhist area, it's one of the few regions that look, feel, and lives like Tibet was before the Chinese invaded. In Leh there are a few mosques so here there are also some Muslims, main ... 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