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	the Water of the Indu River Tip Rating:

By call_me_rhia on August 25, 2003

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Ladakhi water

by call_me_rhia

OK, we all know the warning.. never drink tab or river water in India... Well, ow I?m hapy to inform you that you can... there's a wonderful brand of mineral water out, called Ladakh Indus. So you see, you can now drink Ladakhi water without being worrie about nasty parasites and bugs. Of all the mineral waters I tried in India... it's the one with the best taste. Ladakh rules, I guess!

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	Mani walls Tip Rating:

Updated By call_me_rhia on August 23, 2003

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stones on a mani wall

by call_me_rhia

Often, around Ladakh, you will see some long walls covered with flat stones bearing some strange inscriptions. These are called mani walls, and basically they are Tibetan prayer walls. The stones are prayer stones and the inscription is a mantra - most often "om mani padme hum". These walls have growns generation over generation, and are considered sacred, so you should not touch the stones - you shouldn't walk around them anti-clockwise either

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By call_me_rhia on August 21, 2003

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the sapoo oracle

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The Sapoo oracle is one of the best knon in Ladakh, and it's about 15 kilometres east of Leh, In Sapoo, which you reach by a side road that bisects before the large army camp. She's a Lhamo, a female oracle, and she can foretell the future and answer personal questions. However the most impressive part of the ritual was when she started to heal locals: she violently beat the evil out of an allegedly possessed villager, she cured some eye problems of a young woman by placing a burning dagger on her tongue and then blowing the smoke in her eyes, and finally she sucked some illness out of some other woman's womb. It was my first encounter with shaman's craft - and I was very impressed

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	Taktok festival Tip Rating:

By call_me_rhia on August 20, 2003

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a mask at taktok festival

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There are two annual festivals that take place in Taktok: the Thak Thok Tse Chu (9th to 11th day of the sixth Tibetan month) and the Viz Thak Thok Manchog (20th to 29th day of the ninth Tibetan month). In 2003 it happened on 9 August, and I was lucky enough to be able to see the dances - slow, hypnotising, with impressive costumes and masks. The best part of the festival, however, was the valley villagers that attended the festival: smiling, friendly in a curious way, and wearing wonderful traditional costumes and bizarre head-dresses. My advice to every Ladakh visitor is to try and take in a festival during your stay.

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	Pass stupas on the left hand side Tip Rating:

By NEILHALLIDYA on November 26, 2005

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While travelling around the mountains of Ladakh you will see numerous stupas, gompas and monasteries.

It is custom to pass these on the left hand side. This will create an impression of respect to the locals and will not upset the gods.

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	I would have enjoyed more this... Tip Rating:

Updated By zumodemango on August 26, 2002

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by zumodemango

I would have enjoyed more this trip if I had read/known more on Buddhisim before. It is never late and I'm reading three books at the moment!!! The picture is a detail(one of the eight symbols in Buddhism)of a praying wheel at Shey Monastery.

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	Smoking tabacco was part of my... Tip Rating:

Updated By zumodemango on August 26, 2002

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Smoking tabacco was part of my trekking, not any tabacco, it´s one that you smoke the leaves. Our favorite: Dum Dum Diri(in a plastic packet: blue,red and yellow)5 Rupias in the bars/tents!!!! (in the picture, all the girls smoking). Three of us(Madi, Aurora and me) made a club: the Dum Dum Diri smoking Club!

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	There are lots of bars where... Tip Rating:

Updated By zumodemango on August 26, 2002

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by zumodemango

There are lots of bars where you can have a rest, drink something, smoke, sing, read, buy water for next day... I love the apple juice!!!! and nice warm cup of tea!!!
It's expensive but we have to be aware that we are in the middle of mountains!
(in the picture bar in Churkimo: from left to right Madi, Paco, Pedro, Aurora and Victor)

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	always move clockwise while near religious objects Tip Rating:

By kikalena on February 5, 2006

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When you are in a monastery or inside it, near "chortens", prayer wheels or any other religious objects (these can also be sacred mountains or lakes) always move in the clockwise direction not to ofend local people.

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	entering monasteries Tip Rating:

By kikalena on February 5, 2006

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When you want to enter a gompa (monastery) it is obligatory to take your shoes off.

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