Wangdue Phodrang Dzong ruins

Wangdue Phodrang District · Bhutan

Wangdue Phodrang Dzong ruins, Bhutan
Photo: shrimpo1967, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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March to May
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The commanding ruins of a seventeenth-century fortress on a spur above the confluence of two rivers, gutted by fire and under long reconstruction. The exposed masonry and dramatic siting reveal how these strongholds guarded the valleys.

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