Places of Interest

Ladakh is like a big block of history in a status quo position. Time as if has stopped here for centuries. Ladakh therefore is blessed with Monasteries dating back to eleventh centuries, it has palaces and other beautiful monuments that make this land a heavenly treat for your eyes to behold. Some of the popular categorization for first time tourists to Ladakh can be made on basis of Monasteries, Lakes, Palaces and a Desert.

The stretch of road from Srinagar to Leh, too is embedded with some of the most wonderful and magnificent structures & formations. The first to greet you will be the awesome Zozilla Pass standing tall at 11649 metres. The road and the curves and turns will surely up your heartbeats.

Then we see the Maitreya Statue at Mulbeck, the statue of Maitreya or the future Lord Buddha carved on a hillock right near the road. One encounters landscaped roads, the arid deserts, gushing rivers and places like Fotulla Top, Moonland and of course the Magnetic Hill, where it is claimed that your vehicle defies the gravity of the earth and accelerates without power and climbs up the hill stretch.

After witnessing these wonderful things you reach Leh Town, a not so modern a town, and you plan your itinerary for rest of the days. The top on your schedule must the the following things.

• Monasteries in Ladakh
• Palaces in Ladakh
• Lakes in Ladakh
• Other places to see in Leh