Category: Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh

Tawang is India’s most dramatic frontier — a high-altitude Buddhist town at 8,500 feet in the Eastern Himalayas of Arunachal Pradesh, where the world’s largest monastery after Rumtek presides over a landscape of glacial lakes, mountain passes, and ancient Monpa villages. Sitting at the borders of Tibet and Bhutan, Tawang carries centuries of spiritual history and geopolitical significance in equal measure. Remote, otherworldly, and profoundly beautiful, it remains one of the least-visited yet most extraordinary destinations in India — a place that rewards the effort of getting there many times over.