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Spiti: Tabo and Dhankar

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As we reached Tabo at around 7 PM, without wasting a second we entered in the monastery which is famous for being more than 1000 years old.  The Tabo undoubtedly looks different than any other Monastery Established in 996, considered as the holiest and is situated at approx 10700 ft. Prayer Wheels at the Tabo Monastery, Spiti The place is holy barren and desolate moonscape with no vegetation the supply of goods come from Kaza, the next famous village. We didn’t have any hotel reservation but found a budgeted small hotel named Dekit Norphel. Naturally formed clay mountain on our way to Tabo Due to some unheralded crisis we couldn’t go further to Kaza but after the overnight stay in freezing Tabo village we left for Dhankar the next morning sharp at 6 AM. However Dhankar was not on my list as it was a detoured destination but it is was a stroke of luck I happened to pay my visit to the remarkable Dhankar Monastery, situated at approx 12700 ft. It is

Kinnaur: Nako Lake

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Before leaving from Kuppa I had a well culture learning session with a woman whose better half was posted in HP in JP Hydro Power Project. She told me about how the Panchali System is still practiced in the village of Kinnaur just like it used to be at the time of Mahabharata. I was firmly convinced and got pleasure from old tales of our previous ancient times. The not so smooth road to Kinnaur, the mountains cut out to make way Today's goal was to arrive at Nako but not before a swift halt at Reckong peo. We left at 7 AM and found that the road not very hazardous as the road to Sangla and Chitkul was. Our key intend to visit Rekongpeo was to do a bit of shopping and as Peo is the chief town of the district and one can get bountiful selections in local handcrafted shawls with utmost quality. The market was spread at a long stretch and had copious shops for everything. One can buy dry fruits mainly chilgoza/neoza, almond, dry apricot, and Kinnauri kidney bean which are c