This morning we made the ~14km trip over to Alchi and its approximately 1000-year-old monastery featuring several temples with amazing wall paintings and huge Buddha statues. There was strictly no photography inside the monastery premises here – we actually had to leave all cameras and phones in lockers before entering – so, no photos to share here. The temples were beautiful, as were the alcoves in the stupas; the real highlight though was clearly the ongoing celebration in one of the temples – complete with prayer, sutra recitals, music and some rather bored novices 😉

We had plenty of time here, to check out the circumambulation path around the monastery, complete with hundreds of prayer wheels and great river views.