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Stok Palace on its ridge above the Indus, mountains behind By enquiry
Leh & Ladakh · Royal palace stay

Stok Palace

Above the Indus near Leh, the Namgyal family's home of two centuries takes guests — a monk on the top floor, the royal museum, and three villas in the apricot orchard.

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Mud-plastered guest wings and rooftop glasshouses among tall poplar trees, bare mountain slopes behind, at Ladakh Sarai, Leh By enquiry
Leh & Ladakh · Himalayan retreat

Ladakh Sarai

Founded in 1978, a few years after Ladakh first opened to travellers, and now stewarded by Ladakhis, this slow-travel base sits in Ayu village in the Indus Valley, built in traditional stone-and-mud style. Stay in a mud hut, a chalet or the duplex suite. Televisions have been removed from every room; a shared set waits in the Sarai Hall, which tells you what the place is for.

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View from an upper walkway down into the double-height atrium lounge with oversized dome pendant lamps, sofas and red patterned rugs at The Chospa, Leh By enquiry
Leh & Ladakh · Boutique hotel

The Chospa

A contemporary hotel on Old Leh Road, built the old Ladakhi way: thick, buttressed walls of compressed earth blocks made on site. Leh's main market is 350 metres away, Leh Palace just over a kilometre. Juniper, the ground-floor restaurant, works Ladakhi and Tibetan flavours through its menus, and the bathroom floors are heated — which, in a Leh winter, is no small thing.

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