Leh and the Ladakh Festival

[HumanRightsVideosTib]

anglo-indo-tib culture :-)

[samueldorje]

jullay really ladakh is beautyful:)  i hope u like it:) its nice to see this video on you tube.. ru coming this year also???

[brianpeters51]

Thanks for uploading; visited Leh and the upper Zanskar way back in 1979; one of the earlier years for backcountry tourism in the region.

[contemporarynomad]

I wish I could've been there 20 years ago, it must have been amazing.

In 2008, we only saw one (!) perak (outside the Ladakh Festival), the traditional headdress Lakakhi women wear.

[brianpeters51]

1979-actually 30 years ago,barely 15 years after the China-India war over the Aksai Chin. From Srinigar to Leh, we took the road sandwiched between Indian and Pakistani heavy artillery near Kargil, scene of the later Pakistani-Indian war. All this only a matter of weeks before the Russians invaded nearby Afghanistan in '79. Visited valleys as the first 'tourists'; brutal going to high altitude (20,000 feet) far too soon. There were women wearing the turquoise headwear in Leh, I remember.

[contemporarynomad]

30 years - my gosh it's 2009 :)

Don't you wish you had had a video camera then? Or did you have one?

[phunchok7]

WOW that was great!!!Thanks for uploading!!