Buddhist cliff "sky" caves above Kali Gandaki bridge near Chele, Upper Mustang, Nepal
the Kali Gandaki river flows out of Tibet through the ancient kingdom of Mustang and forms one of the deepest gorges on earth. The village of Chele is in restricted Upper Mustang. The sandstone cliff contains Buddhist "sky" caves though some show traces of the earlier Bon religion.
Size: 3675px × 4900px
Location: Chele, Mustang, Nepal
Photo credit: © steve waters / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
Keywords: adventure, altitude, ancient, archaeological, asia, backgrounds, barren, bon, braided, bridge, buddhism, canyon, carved, cave, chele, cliff, construction, copy, crossing, crumbling, culture, engineering, erosion, extreme, gandaki, girder, gorge, high, himalaya, himalayan, infrastructure, journey, kali, kingdom, location, massif, monastical, mountain, mustang, nepal, nepalese, orange, outcrop, portrait, remote, river, rock, rocky, route, sandstone, scenics, sky, space, span, spanning, steel, terrain, tourist, towering, trekking, water, weathering, wide, worn
