A stretch of the Srinagar highway where an optical illusion makes a stationary car appear to roll uphill.
It is a slope illusion, not magnetism, and takes ten minutes. Worth stopping for on the way to the Indus–Zanskar confluence, not as a destination.
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A white Japanese-built peace pagoda on a ridge above Leh, reached by 500 steps or a road, with the best…
The pedestrianised old market below the palace — pashmina, apricots, prayer flags, and cafés where…
A nine-storey 17th-century royal palace above the old town, modelled on the Potala and now partly…
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A twelve-storey gompa stacked up a hill in the Indus valley, often compared to the Potala, with a…