Gurudongmar Lake

Sikkim · India

Gurudongmar Lake, India
Photo: Vickeylepcha, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
Summer
Budget
$
Accessibility
not-accessible
Coordinates
Open in maps

One of the highest lakes in the world, Gurudongmar sits above 5,000 metres in northern Sikkim near the Tibetan border. Sacred to Buddhists and Sikhs, it stays partly frozen much of the year.

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