Chow Guest House

Leh


This excellent-value family-run guesthouse has a range of sparkling-clean, airy budget rooms with log ceilings. It's set behind a flower-filled, walled garden accessed by vehicle off Upper Tukcha Rd or on foot via a narrow path from Changspa Rd.


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1. Gomang Stupa

0.2 MILES

This large 9th-century whitewashed stupa rises in concentric serrated layers flanked by numerous chortens. The charming, shady setting retains a…

2. Shanti Stupa

0.42 MILES

Dominating Leh from a high, rocky ridge, this gigantic white spired pudding of a stupa was built between 1983 and 1991 by Japanese monks to promote world…

3. Central Asian Museum

0.45 MILES

One of Leh's most remarkable buildings, this tapered four-storey stone tower is a modern construction based on a historic Lhasa mansion and built on the…

4. Chokhang Vihara

0.48 MILES

With its coppiced willows, the large courtyard of this 20th-century temple offers an oasis of relatively meditative calm just steps from the bustle of…

5. Guru Lhakhang

0.48 MILES

Restored in 2004 but often locked, this 17th-century shrine to Padmasambhava sits on the edge of the Old Town palace ridge, directly below the palace and…

6. Jamia Masjid

0.49 MILES

In the heart of Leh's market area, the first mosque on this site was built in 1666–67, sealing a political agreement between Ladakh's then ruler Deldan…

7. Leh Palace

0.51 MILES

Bearing a passing similarity to the Potala Palace in Lhasa (Tibet), this nine-storey dun-coloured edifice is Leh's dominant structure and architectural…

8. Leh Old Town

0.53 MILES

Behind Leh’s central Jamia Masjid, winding alleys and stairways burrow between and beneath a series of old mud-brick Ladakhi houses and eroded chortens…