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Ngang Lhakhang - Takhung || 2nd day Trek

After a short trek from the campsite arrive at Ngang Lhakhang temple, this temple was built in the 15th century by Lama Namkha Samdrup, contemporary of Pema Lingpa. After the visit continue across the meadows and through dense vegetations of bamboos and little bushes, crisscrossing several rivulet. After an hour or so the trail ascends through cool, wooded forests of birches draped with Spanish moss and through rhododendron and juniper forest along a dry gulley to Phehphe La pass, marked by fluttering prayer flags and stone shrine. From here the trail descends through deep forest and across a stream and opens to a wide meadow with grazing yaks, cows and sheep to Tang valley. The campsite is in a wide meadow beside the river near the village of Ghambling. (Approx. distance 17kms/ 6- 7 hrs/ascent 750m-descent 700m)