Seeing you for the first time the guest house mistress is sticking out her tongue every second according to an old tibetan custom. She shows that the tongue is pink which means that its owner is not a demon.
And I still get some endorphins from the sight of stupas and mantras right among the houses.
In the LonelyPlanet guide this place is reffered to as a citadel. The word used is not “fort” or “fortress” which are more common, it’s specifically citadel, synonymous to a stronghold.
What does a settlement start from in Ladakh? As it usually is, from a big and beautiful gate.
I’ve been travelling constantly since summer 2005. And from that time onwards all my belongins never took much more space than one backpack.
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Oxanna, Travel | Oxanna | 
March 14, 2009 6:10 pm | 
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