LAKSHADWEEP
- This archipelago comprises 36 islands, situated 200-300 Km off the Kerala
coast. Leisure activities on the island (Bangaram is the only place open for
foreigners) include scuba diving, snorkeling, deep-sea fishing and boat trips
including kayaking.
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LEH
- Picture-perfect scenery and a gentle people, makes Leh a soothing sojourn.
Tourist inflow and a burgeoning hotel industry has, however, speeded up the
slow pace of life and has turned most small-time shopkeeper of Ladakh into tradesmen
of 'ethnic' arts and crafts. Leh is a small friendly place: everybody seems
to know their neighbour and their aunts as well.
Leh lies at an altitude of 3,520m in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir.
The first known inhabitants of Ladakh were a mixture of nomadic herdsmen from
the Tibet plateau and a small group of Buddhist refugees from northern India
known as the Mons. In the later part of the 4th century and early 5th century,
these two groups were joined by an agricultural tribe of Indo-Aryan origin,
the Dards.
Ladakh was annexed to Kashmir in 1932 by a Dogra general, Zorawar Singh, and
became a part of India in 48. The city of Leh became Ladakh's headquarters.
Leh's position was further strengthened when Ladakh obtained decentralized administration
under the Autonomous Hill Development Council in 1995.
