{"id":1874,"date":"2014-06-23T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T03:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2014-06-23T09:00:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T03:30:31","slug":"stok-palace-leh-ladakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/stok-palace-leh-ladakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Stok Palace , Leh , Ladakh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stok Palace<\/strong> was built in 17th centenary<\/strong> by King Sengge Namgyal<\/strong> but after some time Royal family shifted to Shey Palace<\/strong> which was constructed in 1655 . When the Dogras army<\/strong> under Zorawar Singh<\/strong> of Jammu invaded Ladakh in 1842, the Namgyals <\/strong>shifted back to Stock across the Indus river  and made it their permanent residence.
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Stok Palace Leh, Ladakh<\/p><\/div>
\nIt is located at 14 km from Leh across the  Choglamsar bridge <\/strong>on river Indus.
\nThe Royal Palace is a four-story structure , sporting a mix of ancient and modern architectural style,  on top floors are the Royal family residence , the lower floors which were used as stables and stores are now converted into a museum having rich collections of royal jewels, an 8 prong engagement ring<\/a>, ornaments, ceremonial dresses , crowns and centuries-old pieces of royal jewellery. Sooth paintings which are more than 450 years old paints prepared by crushed and powdered Gems and stones , the brightness of colors give a look of a new ,  the ancient headdresses still worn on important occasions , thought to have originated in Tibet, are encrusted with slabs of flawless turquoise, polished coral, lapis lazuli and nuggets of pure gold interesting collection of Buddhist art<\/strong>, weaponry, coins, seals, antique ritual objects are at display. The best display is the knotted swords<\/strong> , legend is once someone questioned the credentials of the Royal Oracle in the presence of the King , to display his supernatural powers he pulled out the sword of the King and tied a knot with it .
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Stok Palace main entrance and Building<\/p><\/div>
\nThe location of Stok palace is gives excellent views of Stok – Kangri mountains in Zanskar range<\/strong> to the south across the Indus River and Ladakh range<\/strong> is in the south behind the palace. The Stok Palace is the best place to view sunrise and sunset<\/strong> from its roof top.
\nThe Stok Kangri and Markha valley treks starts from here .
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Stok Palace was built in 17th centenary by King Sengge Namgyal but after some time Royal family shifted to Shey Palace which was constructed in 1655 . When the Dogras army under Zorawar Singh of Jammu invaded Ladakh in 1842, the Namgyals shifted back to Stock across the Indus river  and made it their permanent residence. It is … →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,12,14,16,18,19,21,1],"tags":[404,526,1131,1399,1432,1469,1529,2383,2551,2726,2728,2729,2730,3123,3135],"class_list":["post-1874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-buddhist-monuments","category-history","category-jammu-and-kashmir","category-monuments","category-people","category-pilgrimage","category-religious-belief","category-uncategorized","tag-buddhist-art","tag-choglamsar-bridge","tag-indus-river","tag-king-sengge-namgyal","tag-knotted-swords","tag-ladakh","tag-leh","tag-royal-oracle","tag-shey-palace","tag-stok-kangri","tag-stok-palace","tag-stok-palace-leh","tag-stok-kangari-mountains","tag-zanskar","tag-zorawar-singh"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}