| Near the southern big chorten a hundred pilgrims are installing white tents and will spend the night here. |
| During their stay, the lamas visited the Tawang Monastery, the Urgeling Gompa, Khinmay Gompa and Gorsam Chorten. |
| Larger villages may have a community temple, a community mill, and religious monuments called stupas and chorten. |
| In the middle of the course is a 16th-century chorten, a Buddhist monument of the kind that dots the landscape all over these parts. |
| We cross the village and its chorten before reaching the monastery of Yalung gompa, 1 km further in a valley in westerly direction. |
| Inside was a large white chorten, and painted on the cave walls and roof were some of the best preserved ancient Buddhist art I had ever seen. |
