Drigung's hour-long monastery kora is worth a stroll for its fine valley views. A side trail leads from a gate to the dürtro . This is the holiest sky burial site in the Lhasa region – people travel hundreds of kilometres to bring their deceased relatives here.
Tourists are no longer welcome to view the sky burials, though monks say that it’s normally fine to hike up to the site when no sky burials are taking place. It’s possible to see the circular platform of stones where the bodies are cut up and the adjacent buildings where the shaved hair of the dead is stored (the site is purified once a year in the sixth lunar month and the hair is disposed of). If the birds are circling, don’t go up to the site.
