Ladakh is a fantasy of the subconscious. You don’t just make plans and go there. This is not Agra or Jaipur or Manali where you know what you will get when you get it. Ladakh is a mystery – a mystery that everyone wants to unravel, but very few rarely do. They say that a car is pulled up the road by magnetism. They say that the river flows in a direction opposite to expected. They say that you can have one foot in the sun and get sunburnt and have the other in the shade and get frozen. They have said a lot.

1. Once upon a time in a land far away

2. In the middle of the desert was a city called Leh

3. With its own mud palaces and its own quirky chortens

4. A lot of mystery and quite a few mountains

5. From the sands of time

6. To the end of rhyme

7. From using the wheels

8. To burning your heels

9. For some dance by the fire

10. Or some lunch by the river

11. But always for some cheer

12. We wish you were here

13. Baie Dankie