white and blue building on brown rocky mountain during daytime

Dhangkar, the former erstwhile capital of Spiti, was home to royal family 300 years ago.Today very little remains in this town except a ancient monastery perched on a hillside cliff & a fort. Aside from beautiful views, the Dhangkar Gompa features a Dhyan Buddha statue and a modest museum with scriptures & murals. The settlement of Shichilling is below the monastery, and there is a new monastery there that houses roughly 150 monks from the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. The village literally lives on an edge overlooking the confluence of Spiti and Pin rivers.