A passage to Ladakh

In the now far 1987 I took a trip to Ladakh. At that time, Ladakh was an enclave from the state Jammu and Kashmir. Getting there by bus was a tiring bus journey going from Jammu to Srinagar and then to Leh, the capital of Ladakh. It pas also a way to progressive get used to the altitude. Jammu and Kashmir,a predominantly Muslim area and Ladakh, a predominantly Buddist area, had nothing in common culturally. The lack of cultural coherence between the 2 areas was striking. Thus the decision from the Indian government to dissociate Ladakh from Kashmir was cheered by Buddhist Ladakhi who suffered discrimination from the Muslim part of the population.
My old diapositives were sleeping in a box till I decided to digitalize some of them.