Dha

It is said that in Ladakh was a village where the people were Aryans. In Likir and in Leh I was told that, although Buddhist, the people were tall, with prominent noses, as if 'of Italian'. In geographically desolate Ladakh Dha is lost in time. Not a single street leads to the village, you leave the road by the Indus River and walk along a high path above a narrow valley full of flowers. Just 60 people live very humbly here and their contact with the outside world is almost nil. They have no electricity, no running water and the fertile land produces the only food that they eat. Occasionally backpackers like me appear and stay a couple of days - I'm in love with this golden valley, its infinite peace and loneliness.