TUKCHE CAVES

Thasang (मुस्ताङ - NP)
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Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 05/07/2016

No »caves« (note 1) in the speleological sense of the word but a single row of about ten or 15 man-made rock chambers in a dilapidating state of repair (note 2) are excavated from semi-consolidated fluvial accumulations of Quaternary age. The rock-cut chambers once might have been used for storage or troglodyte dwelling. SITUATION: A few metres above the public square of Tukche and very close to the main Thakkhola trail, which passes here on the right (eastern) bank of Kali Gandaki valley.

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 05/07/2016

NOTE 1: Listed as Tukche Cave N°5 by PAVEY (1976b: 8). The karstologist WALTHAM (1971e: 49) regarded them as »rock shelters modified by man.« NOTE 2: The cultural historian and tibetologist MEISLER (1994 in: DECLEER 1994c: 51) found that every one of them was only a few metres deep and contained nothing besides broken remains of »tsha-tsha-s [tsa-tsa] … beat caves, too shallow to sit in [to practice Buddhist meditation retreat], too close to the road too.«

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Caves nearby

Distance (km)NameLength (m)Depth (m)
0.5DAMBUSH KHOLA (Cave in the)
0.5DAMBUSH KHOLA ROCK SHELTER 1
0.5DAMBUSH KHOLA ROCK SHELTER 2
1.1LARJUNG - MARPHA (Cave between)
1.6TUKCHE BOULDER CHOKE CAVE
2.4CHOKHOPANI CAVES
2.6CHUKSANG CAVE
2.6GOMPA U
2.6PYUNG KYU U