Ladakh at the Roof of the World
Jullay! Yes that's the buzz word you will encounter the moment you land in Leh's Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport. Jullay is the typical warm welcoming address in the local Ladakhi language. Home to some thirty thousands odd residents, who are amongst the most friendly people of the world with their simple way of life, Leh is one of its kind a city unparalleled to any other in India. The first thing to strike a traveller from the outside world is the awe-inspiring beauty and the somewhat inhospitable climate of the cold dessert. The word La-Dakh in Tibetan language means Land of high passes with La literally meaning pass (e.g. Khardung La) which de scribes the unique geography of the place, is also referred as the Roof of the World because of its elevation. Some 1,011 odd km away from the national capital Delhi and at an altitude of 11,500 feet above the mean sea level, Leh, the administrative headquarter of Ladakh region in the eastern Jammu & Kashmir is one