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Photos of Leh

from the travel blog entry Friendly and fantasitc Leh
by Michael & Erin about a trip to Leh

Dancers and musicians parade on the polo grounds in traditional costumes.	Michael towering over an elderly ladakhi woman with silver and torquise headdress.	Polo player about to WHACK the ball. The action was close and riveting.	Musicians at the Thiksey Gompa performing for the Chaam.
Erin and Michael on the Khardung La pass, 5602 meters.	A farm clings to the mountain side. It's a hard life in the Himalayas.	A warload with the skull and arm bones of a defeated mongol invader, Diskit Monastery.	Desolate scenery coming back from Noon Lake.
Monks playing football and cricket.	Our friends Danny and Rachel on the balcony of our guest house in Leh.	The sweeping scenery on the approach to Leh.	Erin making friends.
A polo player rides his horse through town on the way to the polo grounds.	The buildings in Leh are made of mud and straw brick and mortar.	A man turning a big prayer wheel.	The polo groungs, with the parade of Ladakhi culture about to start.
The parade passing by on the polo grounds.	The parade passing by on the polo grounds.	The parade passing by on the polo grounds.	The parade passing by on the polo grounds.
The parade passing by on the polo grounds.	The parade passing by on the polo grounds.	The parade passing by on the polo grounds.	Monks from the yellow hat sect.
The parade passing by on the polo grounds.	The parade passing by on the polo grounds.	Performers in traditional costumes.	The army were brought in to distrbute water due to the high heat and fierce sun.
Dancing men balacing pitchers of liquor on their heads.	Dancing men balacing pitchers of liquor on their heads.	A Chinese style lion.	A Chinese style lion.
Performers in traditional costumes.	Performers in traditional costumes.	Performers in traditional costumes.	Performers in traditional costumes.
Performers in traditional costumes.	Monks and police enjoy the show.	Performers in traditional costumes.	Women in torquise studded headdresses.
A woman in a torquise studded headdress.	The traditional dress.	Traditional outfit.	Michael enjoyig the scene on the polo grounds.
The old palace overlooking Leh. Built in a style similar to the palace in Lhasa. Here the rain and ...	A magnificent and cryptic stupa in Leh.	The sun setting changes all the colors in town.	Construction of a concrete shop.
Polo play does not stop for the hapless country folk who walk across the pitch!	Polo!	Polo action in the stands.	An old man watches these labourers.
Archery in Leh.	Michael tries his hand at archery.	Last shot not so good, Michael tries again!	Archery in Leh.
Erin climbing hills.	Scenery around Leh.	A modern pagoda and gompa overlooking Leh.	The valley in which Leh rests.
Erin below the Thiksey Gompa.	Looking out of a stairway climbing up to Thiksey.	Looking out of a stairway climbing up to Thiksey.	Chaam at the Thiksey gompa.
Chaam at the Thiksey gompa.	Chaam at the Thiksey gompa.	Chaam at the Thiksey gompa.	Looking out of Thiksey gompa at the ground below.
Monks waiting in the wings for their part in the chaam.	Chaam at the Thiksey gompa.	Looking out of Thiksey at the hillside.	Chaam at the Thiksey gompa.
Chaam at the Thiksey gompa.	Chaam at the Thiksey gompa.	Chaam at the Thiksey gompa.	Chaam at the Thiksey gompa.
Chaam at the Thiksey gompa.	Chaam at the Thiksey gompa.	Chaam at the Thiksey gompa.	Chaam at the Thiksey gompa.
The 5 - 6 foot long horns played at the monastery.	Looking out of Thiksey's roof to the valley.	Looking out of Thiksey's roof to the valley.	Discarded or spare stones with Tibetan script beside the path up to Thiksey gompa.
Looking up to Thiksey gompa.	Getting ready to go river rafting.	Erin is pumped up and ready to go, and so is the raft.	A break from rafting on the banks of the cold and wild river.
Mountain scenery near Nimmu.	Our rafting group in front of a traditional Ladakhi house, with colorful garden.	Coming back to Leh from Nimmu.	A VIP arrives to watch the polo game.
The polo players line up. The dog is not part of the game.	Polo action.	Polo action, cover your head!	A calf wandering on the polo field!
Labourer using the traditional carrying technique seen everywhere in India.	Baker baking little loaves in a clay oven.	Street scene in Leh, including the mosque's minaret.	Mountain scenery on the way up to Khardung La.
Khardung La, does it snow here all the time?	Strange toilet sign at the pass.	Looking up to the peak at Khardung La.	Us documenting our crossing of Khardung La, highest motorable pass in the world.
The valley north of Khardung La.	A 'hotel' in North Pullu.	Yaks below Khardung La.	Mountain scenery going to Nubra valley.
Mountain scenery going to Nubra valley.	Mountain scenery going to Nubra valley.	Mountain scenery going to Nubra valley.	Mountain scenery going to Nubra valley.
Mountain scenery going to Nubra valley.	Ern, Noemi and Miriam exploring.	A prayer wheel and mani wall in Hunder.	Erin dons the classic back pack to pick veggies.
A bee amongst the throns of the sea buck thorn bush. The pickers of these berries lead a hard life.	Some chortens in Hunder.	A washing machine at the Snow Leopard guest house.	The Snow Leopard guest house in Hunder. All the Ladakhis homes seem to spend a big effort on the ...
Double humped camels.	I'm wary of this smelly beast, and the feeling is mutual.	Erin pretends to enjoy the company of this camel.	Part of the Hunder gompa.
Stones from the mani wall leading from the Hunder Gompa up to the monks caves of seclusion.	Stones from the main wall.	A cave for meditating in. There is no comfortable side to this.	Looking out from a shrine above the Hunder gompa.
Looking at Nubra valley from above the Hunder gompa.	A shrine above the Hunder gompa.	Looking out at the Nubra valley from a shrine above the Hunder gompa.	Erin in a shrine above the Hunder gompa.
Erin looks out at the Nubra valley.	Some of the stones from the Mani wall.	The Diskit gompa.	Erin and Miriam chat at the Diskit gompa.
A monk leads the way for a labourer up the stairs in the Diskit gompa.	Looking out from the Diskit gompa.	The lock and keys to a shrine in the gompa.	An ornate door with old fashioned lock keeps a shrine safe.
A shrine in the Diskit gompa.	A shrine in the Diskit gompa.	details of the structural method for these roofs.	A monk leads a labourer up to the monastery.
Cows escaping while Miriam tells stories.	Miriam and Noemi and us.	Erin investigates the sulfurous hot spring.	The landscape around Noon lake.
Noon lake.	The valley surounding Nubra lake.	Details of mural on the Samstemling Gompa.	View off the roof of the Samstemling Gompa.
An discarded palanquin on the roof of the Samstemling Gompa.	A country road in Nubra Valley. Straw and mud brick walls topped with seabuck thorn berry branches.	The drive back to the pass.	The desolate hotel in North Pullu.
Looking back from North Pullu.	Driving up to the pass.