Shey Palace

Shey Palace is a castle in Leh district, Ladakh. Shey Palace is situated nearby to the castle Shey Monastery, as well as near the Buddhist temple Shey Bodh Montessori.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Shey Monastery and Thikse Monastery.

Shey Monastery

Castle

Photo: Kmohankar, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Shey Monastery or Gompa or the Shey Palace are complex structures located on a hillock in Shey, 15 kilometres to the south of Leh in Ladakh, northern India on the Leh-Manali road.

Thikse Monastery

Buddhist temple

Photo: Shashank Mehendale, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Thiksey Monastery or Thiksey Gompa is a Buddhist monastery affiliated with the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. It is located on top of a hill in Thiksey approximately 19 kilometres east of Leh, in the Ladakh region of northern India. Thikse Monastery is situated 3½ km southeast of Shey Palace.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shey and Chuchat Yakma.

Shey

Village

Photo: Kiran L Reddy, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Leh, the main capital of Ladakh, India, is on the Indus River Valley, at a crossroads of the old trading routes from Xinjiang, Tibet and Kashmir.

Chuchat Yakma

Village

Chuchat Yakma, also known as Chuchot Yokma, is a village in the Leh district of Ladakh, India. It is located in the Chushot tehsil. Chuchat Yakma is situated 3 km west of Shey Palace.

Thiksey

Village

Photo: Kiran Jonnalagadda, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Thiksey is a village and the headquarters of its eponymous block and tehsil in Leh district, Ladakh, India. The Thikse Monastery is located here. Thiksey is situated 4 km southeast of Shey Palace.

Shey Palace

Type: Castle
Categories: building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Leh district, Ladakh, Himalayan North, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude

34.07166° or 34° 4′ 18″ north

Longitude

77.63295° or 77° 37′ 59″ east

Open location code

8J6V3JCM+M5

OpenStreetMap ID

way 167857724

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=castle

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