view from the top sitting in the craft 
Ladakhi Dance - Ladakhi Festival 
Monastery one of the famous Gonpas in Ladakh. Housing a Huge Buddha (as high as 15 m)
its Buddha Idol 
HEMIS GONPA
view from shey palace
ultipliers. Every time you utter a prayer and rotate the wheel through one full circle, your prayer gets counted as x prayers instead of one (where the number x depends on the size of the wheel usually - probably BABA's principle is dependent on this one, no wonder Rajni visits Himalayas very Often). So if you feel like praying a 100 times each morning - rotate the wheel 100/x times and you're done. Prayer wheels come in many sizes. Some of the big ones (like the one in the picture) are installed at street corners in Leh. The smaller ones can be carried around easily and monks often rotate their prayer wheel continuously as they walk, i too bought one.
and couple of us from the team were little exhausted for they have had too many gonpa's for the day. I just went uphill to take this one snap of Stok, and found that not many people visit this Gonpa but this too has a beautiful view of the mountains and the greener side of LEH. Stok Gonpa 
Chhoshkhor Temple
time 
Likir is no different from Alchi in terms of the paintings however here the paintings
are well maintained unlike the Alchi Temples. The idol which is called Maitreya or the Future Buddha or Buddha of Compassion is something thats really attracting the toursists. I wished i could climb on to the statute and take a snap placing myself on the lap of buddha. Future Buddha 
this out on our vehicle and seemed to be true. Just watch this video :I am not sure in order to escape the magnetic impact of the hill if the choppers and aircrafts have to fly at a relatively greater height. And if an aircraft which comes into the radius of the "Magnetic Hill" faces any jerks or any turbulences. A few kilometres from the "Magnetic Hill" is "Gurdwara Patthar Sahib" where Guru Nanak Singh, Guru of Sikhs, had sat on meditation. The Gurdwara, which has its own religious importance for the Sikhs, has remained in the oblivion probably due to its location. Maintained by the army, the Gurdwara
is more of a place of prayer for the locals, armymen and tourists. Not many Sikhs from other parts of the country visit the place. It is said when Guru Nanak Singh was meditating here, an evil soul threw a large stone from the hill top at him. The stone did hit him, but Guru was not hurt. However, the mark of the Guru was left on the stone which is still lying at the Gurdwara. We managed to get a free lunch at the 'Langar Hall' which is generally served on Sunday's only. Having finishsed a late lunch we visited the Spituk Gonpa and the Kali Mata Temple a few kms away from Leh. We couldsee the run way from here and the view from Spituk is was indeed a great sight to watch. The kali mata idol with its face closed is a magnificient one which is open for a week during a festival in Jan. I could imagine the powerful charisma of this idol for with its face closed itself it was bhayanak. Check this view
from Spituk and kali mata temple. Soon we were done with what we have planned for the day and reached our guest house. 
expereincing the snow we gulped the hot tea offered by the local army man and set of to Nubra Valley - the valley of flowers. It being the end of the season we couldn't find much flowers to our sight but the very picturesque scene of the roads , the red, green purple colored mountains with the river in between was splendid.
On the way to Nubra Valley 
will head back to leh as the road seems to be blocked and all the vehicles ahead of us started their way back. But the beauty of this travel was the heavy snowfall which was indeed a bonus for all of us. We had a gala time in the snow fand headed back. I guess this will be the best of all the days of trip for most of us. On our way back to Leh we stopped at the place where the Movie "Dil Sey" was shot. It was a fanatstic location and i managed to trek a small
Can you see the small black thing - well thats me
We spent more than an hour at this place before heading back to the guest house. In the evening we had sometime to shop while the next day was dedicated entirely for shopping and chilling out.
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