Chemre Monastery

Ladakh · India

Chemre Monastery, India
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Rising in stacked whitewashed tiers on a hilltop east of Leh, this Drukpa monastery dates to the early seventeenth century. Its picturesque profile and hillside cells overlook barley fields in the Chemre valley.

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