Zbayul: The Invisible Village of Ladakh

Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria

"In 1948, as India was fighting Pakistan in Kashmir, the Pakistani army reached this village but bypassed it completely. Simply because hidden behind a gorge, with just one access point, the village was invisible to them. Legend has it that when the army of a neighbouring kingdom tried to invade the village, they were greeted with huge boulders falling off the gorge, which forced the army to retreat. This week, in the ninth episode of Kashmir diaries, we travel to Ladakh and witness one of the most interesting experiments in local heritage conservation, housed in a 500-year-old home.

Special thanks to Antara Chatterjee from Little Local for providing detailed information about Zbayul and answering queries. You can follow Project Zbayul on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/projectzbayul/?hl=en Little Local https://www.instagram.com/little.local/?hl=en and Roots Ladakh https://www.instagram.com/roots_ladakh/?hl=en"