Ladakh Festival: A Celebration of High Altitude Culture

The massive Ladakh Festival is officially organized heavily by the local Tourism Department every single year in the month of September (specifically lasting for exactly one to two heavy weeks). The massive grand inauguration always physically takes place in Leh, the capital city.

The absolute massive highlight of the festival is the heavy opening ceremony. Thousands of native Ladakhis heavily march through the massive streets of Leh wearing their physically heavy, incredibly beautiful traditional woolen dresses (called 'Goncha') and massive silver and turquoise jewelry.

You cannot talk about massive Ladakhi festivals without violently mentioning the Chham Dance. Highly trained Buddhist monks (Lamas) wear terrifying, massive, highly colorful heavy wooden masks representing angry gods and demons. They violently dance to the massive, heavy sound of giant cymbals and 10-foot-long heavy brass trumpets to physically chase away massive evil spirits.

The massive festival is not just about heavy religion. It heavily features violently aggressive ancient sports like Archery (where archers heavily drink barley beer and violently shoot tiny targets) and massive, highly dangerous Polo matches played on short, incredibly fast Zanskari horses.