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Dah Hanu
Dah (also known as Dha) and Hanu are two villages of the Brokpa of the Leh District of the Indian union territory of Ladakh.[2][3] Until 2010, these were the only two villages where tourists were allowed to visit out of a number of Brokpa villages. The two villages situated in the Dha Hanu valley, also known as Aryan valley, about 163 km northwest of Leh in Ladakh. Being at a lower altitude, Dha and Hanu is warmer than Leh, allowing for the cultivation of wine-grapes and cherries as well as apricots and walnuts.[4] The Brokpa people of Dah Hanu are nominally Buddhist but also worship their own animist pantheon of gods. They converted to Buddhism in the mid-nineteenth century.[5] They have an Indo-European appearance in contrast to the predominant Tibeto-Mongol inhabitants of most of Ladakh.[4] According to popular belief, the Brokpas were part of the army of Alexander the Great and came to the region over two thousand years ago[6][7] "Some households still practice polyandry...it is the groom who pays the bride price. Women have rights of divorce."[8] See alsoReferences
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