The Leh Experience: Tibet in India 🇮🇳

■ LEH, LADAKH: On the western edge of the Himalayan plateau, in the very far North of India, lays the territory known as Ladakh. In the middle ages it used to be part of Tibet. The architecture of the palaces and monasteries even resemble the famous structures of Lhasa to this day.

Buddhism is still the main religion in Leh and quite a few of the people I met still speak Tibetan thus continuing the heritage of a now sadly non-existant country.

My original plan was to visit Leh already last year. A worse than usual monsoon season put a stop to that when mudslides ruined the downtown market area.

This year I wasn't going to let anything stop me from visiting India's Tibetan heritage territory of Ladakh.