Discover Bhutan: A Journey to Happiness
5 days · Cultural journey
5 days · Cultural journey
This is the journey we recommend to anyone meeting Bhutan for the first time. In five days you move between the two western valleys that hold most of the kingdom’s public life: Paro, with its airstrip ringed by peaks, and Thimphu, the only capital in the world without a single traffic light.
The days are paced gently. You stand beneath the 51 metre Buddha Dordenma above Thimphu, wander the memorial chorten among circling pilgrims, and watch students at the painting school learn arts that have not changed in centuries. One evening ends in a traditional hot stone bath, river stones heated in a fire and dropped hissing into a wooden tub, which works the travel out of your shoulders better than anything we know.
The best morning comes last: the climb through blue pine forest to Taktsang, the Tiger’s Nest, folded into a cliff nine hundred metres above the Paro valley. You fly home the next day with the shape of the kingdom clear in your mind.
Your flight banks between forested ridges into Paro. After lunch by the river we drive the hour to Thimphu and walk the main street as the shops light up for the evening.
Every departure is private. We shape the route, pace and stays around you.
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