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Bringingitallbackhome.co.uk is now Silk Road Gallery!
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We have a new improved website to go with our new store - and we hope you like it! We're the same people, Peter and Kay, with the same ethos. If you knew the old site you'll find all your favourites and more here.
Images from the Silk Road
Himalaya Ladakh Leh Travel Diary
Before the Chinese annexation of Tibet in 1949, caravans came down to Leh from the north loaded with wool and salt to be traded for cottons, silks and spices coming up from India.
The Silk Road - 12th Century Buddhist Art
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Ladakh - Little Tibet! Good to be back in Leh with its friendly greeting of "Jullay!". Or even Jullay, jullay, jullay. As many jullays as you like, a delightful word meaning hello, goodbye, please etc.
Return to the Silk Road
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Caravans would come down to Leh across the Karakoram through Kashmir and from the Chang Tang and Tibet carrying wool and salt to be traded for cotton, silk, dyes, spices and dried fruit.
Trekking in Ladakh and Zanskar
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2016, we returned from the wonderful landscape and culture of Ladakh and Zanskar, a Buddhist region in northern India sandwiched between Kashmir and Tibet, an ancient culture often called Little Tibet.