Location:
Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir
Accommodation Options: Guesthouses & Family Houses
Accommodation in Leh
Leh is absolutely glutted with accommodation, most of it
refreshingly neat, clean and excellent value. Budget travellers in
particular are in for a treat. Most of the town's reasonable
guesthouses are immaculately whitewashed traditional houses, set on
the leafy outskirts, with sociable garden terraces that look onto
green fields. Rooms in Leh's mid range hotels come with en suite
shower toilets and piped hot water, while upmarket accommodation is
limited. Off-season, prices can be slashed by as much as sixty
percent.
Rooms in family houses, grouped in three main areas, account for the
bulk of Leh's plentiful budget accommodation. Karzoo and Suku,
northwest of the main street, are very central but become tourist
ghettos during high season; if one is after peace, quite, idyllic
countryside and mountain views, head for Changspa village, fifteen
minutes' walk west of the Bazaar. More in the thick of things are
the mainly Muslim houses of the old town. Crouched in the shadow of
Leh palace, these are inexpensive and full of atmosphere.
Dzomsa Laundry
Situated on a strategic corner between upper Thaka Road and Old Fort
Road at one end of the market square, the Dzomsa Laundry provides a
vital service in ecology sound washing, using literally means
"meeting point", also serves delicious fresh apricot juice, which
one can drink while sitting out side watching the world go by. If
one has got empty mineral water bottles, one can recycle them here
and have them filled with safe drinking water.
Libraries: The Ecology Centre's excellent library
(Monday-Saturday 10.00 am - 4.00 pm) keeps books on everything from
agriculture to Zen Buddhism, as well as periodicals, magazines, and
files of articles on Ladakh and development issue. Serious students
of Buddhism should check out the CIBS library in Choglamsar (Monday
- Saturday 10.00 am -1.00 pm & 2.00 - 4.00 pm), where the helpful
librarians speak English.
Meditation: Small classes are run by the Mahabodhi society in
Changspa, which specializes in Vipassana.
Mountain Bikes: Mountain bikes may be rented through Highland
Adventures in the Hotel Ibex complex.
Pharmacy: For Tibetan Medicine, try Dr Tsewang Rigzin Larje,
whose clinic is by the old bus stand, south of the main bazaar,
stock fresh film of all kinds, including slide film. If it's closed,
try ND Dijoo & Sons on the main street. Also look around the area
beside the Jami Masjid.
Post: The post office is at the Main Bazaar (Monday-Saturday
10.00 am - 1.00 pm & 2.00-4.00 pm). For parcels, go to the GPO
(Monday-Saturday 10.00 am - 4.30 pm), out of town on Airport Road,
whose unreliable poste restante counter is tucked around the back.
One can also receive letters through the Tourist Information Centre
on Fort Road.
Yoga: Small classes for all levels are run by a western
teacher at Thanglang house, Changspa (Monday-Friday 10.30 am -
noon).
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LADAKH
TOUR PACKAGES
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LADAKH
PANORAMA TREKS(Durations
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LAKE TREKS(Durations
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MONASTERY TREKS(Durations
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MARKHA VALLEY TREKS(Durations
16Nights/17Days)
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