Shopping in Leh will be a fascinating experience if you wish to take home souvenirs and curios from this enchanting land. You will find exquisite things even from across the border like Burma and Afghanistan besides the traditional Tibetan items while shopping in Leh.

While shopping in Leh, you will find a range of beautiful carpets and rugs with traditional Kashmiri and Persian motifs. The popular attractions from Tibet are the jewellery made from semi-precious stones, the native Thangka paintings and traditional items like Thangka paintings, small prayer wheels, music bowls, Ladakhi carpets, rugs, shawls and stoles.You will also be fascinated by the rubies form Burma and the Lapis Lazuli from Afghanistan. T-shirts with 'Free Tibet' printed in them and painted masks are also interesting souvenirs to take home from Tibet.

Tibet is famous for its metal ware. If you are an art connoisseur, then the commonly found cymbals with special religious motifs that are used during meditation, decorative copper and brass trumpets and sonorous bowls made of nine metals like cymbals will all be fascinating collector's items. If you are fond of fancy jewellery, then you can pick up the most exquisite ones like chunky shell bangles worn by Ladakhi women and exquisite unpolished turquoise and silver jewelry. For those with a sweet tooth, there are a number of German bakeries in Leh to cater to European tastes.

The main shopping area is the Main market. Other places worth checking out are the Ladakh Art Palace, Lhasa Embroidery and the government emporiums in the main shopping area. Tibetan Refugee Market on Old Leh Road is another ideal place for shopping in Leh.


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