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Ladakh Tourism
About Ladakh
Travel to Ladakh & Leh in India Trans Himalayas region which is full
of amazing sights, blessed with all the natural bounties, surrounded by towering
peaks, trekking and hiking trails, a popular destination known for its immense
natural beauty all over the world......
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How to Reach Ladakh
Leh - Srinagar-Leh road is the main route with an over night halt at
Kargil. The road is open between mid June and November. Ordinary and deluxe
buses of the J&K state road transport corporation regularly ply on this
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Fairs and Festival of Ladakh
The religious philosophy of Buddhism, however, profound and subtle doesn't
preclude an immense joie-de-vivre among its Ladakhi adhe-rents,a nd even solemn
religious enactments are made the occasion for joyous celebration. Many of
the annual festivals of the gompas take place in winter, a relatively idle
time for the majority of the people. .....
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Ladakh Festival Calendar
Most of the festival events in Ladakh are the annual monastic festivals.
Among non-monastic events count the Losar or New Year celebrations and the
notable Ladakh Festival organized by the Kashmir and Jammu government. The
monastic festivals are dance-dramas in the gompa courtyards. The performers
are the lamas, the monks themselves. Wearing colorful garments and often frightful,
at times comic masks, the monks perform mimes representing various aspects
of the religion, be it the progress of the individual soul and its purification
or the triumph of good over evil .....
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Places of Interest in Ladakh
Leh is the headquarter of Leh District, and the largest town of the region.
It is located to the north of the Indus River at an elevation of 3600m above
the sea level. The town is dominated by the nine-storey Namgyal Palace and
Namgyal Tsemo (victory peak), built by Tashi Namgyal on his victorious in
reunification of the Upper and Lower Ladakh. .....
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Monasteries of Ladakh
The Spituk Gonpa "Exemplary"; 7km. to southwest of Leh, was
founded by Od-Ide, in the 11th century AD; when the monastic community was
introduced. Meanwhile, Lotsava Rinchen Zangpo (the great translator) visited
this monastery. In those days the Gonpa belonged to the Kadampa School but
Gelukpa order was introduced during the reign of king Dragspa Bum-Lde, when
Lama Lhawang Lotus restored the monastery. .....
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Tour Packages of Ladakh
