Jomolhari Trek

Jomolhari is the trek most Bhutanese guides name first. Over eleven days it carries you from Paro’s rice paddies to Jangothang, the base camp of a 7,326 metre peak sacred on both sides of the border, and back down again.

The walking follows the Paro Chhu upstream through Jigme Singye National Park, from farmland into oak and birch forest, past the treeline, until the valley opens into alpine meadow beneath the mountain wall. Blue sheep graze the slopes above camp, and the villages along the way belong to yak herders who still move with the seasons.

A rest day at Jangothang is built in, usually spent climbing to the twin lakes of Tsho Phu for the head-on view of Jomolhari and its sharper neighbour, Jichu Drake. It is the finest single view in the kingdom, and you earn it on foot.