Hanging precariously from a cliff 900 meters up, this 330-year-old Buddhist monastery - four buildings connected by stairways and more properly called Paro Taktsang - is Bhutan's most sacred site. Located in the far western Paro Valley, but just 45 minutes from capital Thimphu - you need to hike nearly one to two hours through beautiful forests (though there's a rest stop and cafeteria on the way), then climb almost 700 stairs to reach it. Still, this is one of the country's most visited places, built around a cave where the 8th-century founder of Buddhism in Bhutan is said to have meditated.
It's one of 13 of the World's Most Spiritual and Sacred Places profiled in a post from Tripatini member Manmohan Singh.
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