Flying from within India to Leh, you can board a flight in Delhi for a one-hour flight and there are also internal flights from Amritsar, Chandigarh, Jammu, and Srinagar.
Leh travel may be difficult as the region does not have the best roads in the world but it does have great drivers with jeeps who are happy to take you wherever you are going. Taxis from outside are not permitted in Leh, although private vehicles are. If you need a taxi in Leh you will find that most drivers
understand more English than they speak but can manage the necessary conversation to get you from one place to another and charges are based on the journey's start and ending places rather than distance covered or via a meter. Travel to Leh through buses. Local buses are a very inexpensive form of travel around Leh and run frequently between the villages. One can even hire a motorcycle if feeling intrepid...
Of course you can ride around on a yak or a camel too, but only as part of an organized safari or trek... tourists trying to control their mounts on the main street without experience or help is probably not what the wonderfully patient inhabitants of Leh, capital of northern India's 'Little Tibet' would call 'travel'!
It all depends on your nature whether you are better off deciding to travel to Leh and then see what happens when you get there or visit on an organized trip. Although there are some places where it is fine just to turn up, this probably isn’t really one of them for anyone except young students who don’t mind ‘roughing it’ and you will get a lot more out of your travel to Leh, ‘Land of the High Passes’ and capital of India’s Ladakh region if you get your travel to Leh organized with the help of someone with experience and local knowledge. Travel to Leh to enjoy the place. |
