Spiti: Tabo and Dhankar

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 undoubtedly one of the most diverse outlooks for any building in the world.  It lies on a cliff and gives a spectacular sight to the observer from a far and is one of the endangered places in the world.

The unusual Dhankar Village 


And then we did a straight journey for 15 hours to reach back to Rampur for the night halt.



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