If Himalayas are the landscape of the mind, Ladakh defines it as a landscape. Ladakh, the region with world's highest mountains, was opened to the outside world in 1970s. Before that the entire region lived in oblivion inside their own world; ice cold winters and warm summers with green apricot trees blossoming in its barren landscape. The short summers are celebration for the people, dancing and drinking only to pave way for the apricot leaves to turn yellow and ...
