Download or read book Parvéz Dewân's Jammû, Kashmîr, and Ladâkh: Ladâkh written by Parvez Dewan and published by Manas Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parvez Dewan can send you to sleep about Ladakh. If anyone has the Ultimate Dossier on this land, it is he, after years of running about India's northern-most region, administering and adventuring his way around its desert plains, passes and lakes. Along the way, he discovered that Kargil and Leh had large Buddhas carved into the mountainside, noticed that the `world's purest Aryans,' the Drokpas, weren't amused by suggestions that there was mass kissing at their festival and taught himself polo on the endless Kargyak Plains - the highest inhabited place in the world. Parvez started the Ladakh Festival, threw open to tourists seven thitherto `forbidden' areas (but got bounced back from Siachen), developed an admiration for the history, culture and people of the Pak Occupied Gilgit-Baltistan-Hunza region, introduced the Suru Valley and Goshan Murad Bagh to the international media, and waited for weeks to sight the snow leopard. He was luckier with the wild ass, Brahmini ducks and black necked cranes, though.