Other sights in Spiti
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Ki Gompa
About 12km from Kaza, the tiny village of Ki is dominated by the whitewashed buildings of Ki Gompa. Set atop a 4116m-high hillock, this is the largest gompa in Spiti and the views from the top are extremely photogenic. Around 300 monks, including many students from surrounding villages, live here. An atmospheric puja is held in the new prayer hall every morning at around 7am (8am in winter). On request, the monks will open up the original medieval prayer rooms, full of thangkas, Buddhist texts printed on cloth, and the bed slept in by the Dalai Lama on his visits in 1960 and 2000. Dance masks are brought out for the annual Ki chaam festival (June/July) and again in Februa…
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Dhankar Gompa
The 1200-year-old Dhankar Gompa is wedged between rocky spurs at the top of the Dhankar village, with views that inspire euphoria. The lower monastery building has a silver statue of Vajradhara (the Diamond Being), and there’s a second prayer hall on the hilltop, with exquisite medieval murals of Sakyamuni, Tsongkhapa and Lama Chodrag.
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Tabo Gompa
About 47km east of Kaza, tiny Tabo is the only other town in the Spiti Valley. The ridge above town is riddled with caves used as meditation cells by local lamas. The village is completely dominated by Tabo Gompa, a World Heritage Site preserving some of the finest Indo-Tibetan art in the world.
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Museum
About 2km above Gulling at Kungri, the 600-year-old Ugyen Sanag Choling Gompa has a small museum with ethnological and religious displays.
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Museum
Downhill from Dhankar village, is a small museum with costumes, instruments, old saddles and Buddhist devotional objects.
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