A remote cave monastery built into a honeycomb cliff, where prayer halls and whitewashed homes overlook the wild Lungnak Valley.
About the place
Phugtal Monastery seems to grow directly from the mountain, its white buildings gathered beneath the mouth of a vast natural cave.
Reached through the remote Lungnak Valley, the monastery carries an extraordinary sense of isolation, with ancient prayer spaces, steep trails and the turquoise river far below.
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