Leh

Leh is the principal town of Ladakh, situated at 3,524 metres in the Indus Valley between the Zanskar and Ladakh ranges, and serves as the gateway for travel to Pangong Tso, Nubra Valley, and the monasteries of central Ladakh. The old town's stacked mud-brick buildings rise toward the nine-storey Leh Palace, a seventeenth-century royal residence modelled loosely on the Potala in Lhasa. The Namgyal Tsemo Gompa above the palace provides the highest vantage point over the town and valley.