Leh & Ladakh 

It's landscapes are forbidding by any measure. snow-swathed mountains rise to several thousand feet above one of the most elevated plateau on earth. A tree-less, wind-swept country much of Ladakh can be termed as mountains, arctic desert, where everything is parched. Scattered here and there, are a few narrow, fertile valleys which provide a stark contrast to an otherwise barren country of intense sunlight and clear sparkling air. The atmosphere, in fact gives the night sky a unique clarity, so full and bright with stars that one feels transported to some etheral setting far removed from earth.