Next stop for the adventurous traveler? It may be Ladakh. (Ladakh, India)

Sunset | October 1, 1988 | Copyright

"Little Tibet" is what guidebooks call Ladakh, an ancient mountain kingdom in northernmost India's Jammu and Kashmir state. It's an apt nickname: this cor

. ner of the Tibetan Plateau is sparsely populated with a friendly, peaceful people whose life is largely shaped by Tibetan Buddhism.

But Ladakh is also unique unto itself, a long-isolated culture only recently opened to visitors. The main city, Leh, is barely 50 miles from India's cease-fire line with China, and tourists weren't allowed here until 1974. Last year, about 25,000 outsiders visited Ladakh, most of ...

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