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Ladakh, Tibet: A Traveler's Diary - Story by Elizabeth Elliott
- 6th Online Issue

Good evening and I hope that your sky at dusk may be a beautiful as Ladakh.

I write to you from Leh, capital of the Himalayan province of Ladakh, where I’ve just returned from the Nubra Valley, near Pakistan, part of the famous 'silk route'.

The trip comprised of a quite literally cliffhanging journey, bumping along mountainous roads, including the world's highest drivable pass at 5700m. With our friendly student guides Dolkar and Stanzin, we listened to a soundtrack of the Hindi blockbuster 'Kal Hoo Na Hoo' and sung along to it with much gusto! I am still in a perpetual state of astonishment at the landscape, which, often compared to the surface of the moon, is relentlessly dry and barren. Pockets of green that centre around the river are a miracle of life, and from it there is a whole different world - fields of barley, cows, apricot trees and farmhouses.

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