Sunday, January 21, 2007

Kyung Lung & Purang

Project Himalaya Treks
Kyung Lung & Purang
(go to http://kyunglung.blogspot.com/ for a full photo site of Kyung Lung ...)
After the kora, we continue west to visit the ancient Zhangzhung Kingdom, or 'garuda valley', where the crumbling troglodyte capital of Kyunglung is all that remains of a Bonpo Kingdom that ruled over most of Tibet, Ladakh and the neighboring regions for over a millennium in the pre-Christian era. This region, set amidst impressive canyons on the bank of the Sutlej, is almost never visited by tourists and has no check-posts or entrance-guards, so a unique chance to explore the tunnels, caves and old habitations of this ghost city ...





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