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Punakha Slideshow
Punakha
Travel Blogs from Punakha, Bhutan
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Bhutan Day 3
This is a top pick! ... about this country, they are painted everywhere !!! And even after a donation, Lucy never got the dick, so we moved on Punakha Dzong Our guide said that as we are tourists, we must walk across the longest suspension bridge to get to the ...
Wangdue and the "No Dogs" Temple
Small town Wangdue has a lot of shops (mostly "general shops") and is very windy. Maybe that's why the town is currently being relocated further down the river. The Wangduephodrang Dzong here is among the few that have not yet been entirely restored, ...
Your Phallus Or Mine?
... coming! We left our hotel in Thimpu at 8:30am this morning and headed for the hills and the road to Punakha, which is the old capitol of Bhutan. After about 45 minutes we reached the Dochula Pass at about 3300 metres in altitude. Here there ...
Thimphu to Punakha
... the bus and get off and walk downhill for about a mile, just to get exercise. Our next stop is the Punakha Dzong, spectacularly situated between two rivers. The monks are having a special prayer observance, and we cannot enter their shrine. We ...
Archery and dancing a normal Sunday morning...
Evidence that everyone survived the archery (and also the dancing) ...
On the way to Punakha
We departed to Punakha. It is reached through a series of zigzags over the Dochu la Pass(3.088m) when if skies are clear you can have a panoramic view of the Himalayas. We saw it in a postcard. There is also a victory temple, lots of flags and 108 stupas. ...
Punakha Valley
Punakha valley is lower and therefore quite a bit warmer than the area around Thimphu . Like many others, the local Dzong was damaged some years ago (by a flood), so it looks rather new now. Some important battles between the Bhutanese and the Tibetans ...
Heading back towards the only airport...
... was actually not to shoot the arrow furthest, but closest to the target. Apparently she won without knowing why... :) Day 8 Bhutan (Punakha - Thimpu - Paro): The majority of this day was spent in the car as we had 5 hours of road to ...
Punaka, Wangdue, back to Paro and out of Bhutan
We left Thimpu and headed north to the provence of Punakha, where the weather was, thankfully, slightly warmer. The road through the mountain pass was slightly precarious - narrow and steep, with the imminent theat of oncoming trucks. Luckily, it appears ...
Kids will be kids
... vi, no entanto, figuras religiosas munidas de um cordel, como é um clássico na cidade portuguesa. Visitei a antiga cidade de Punakha, perto do Dzong. Aqui é possível ver uma diferença de qualidade de vida um pouco abismal. Apesar da organização das ...
God i'm Punakha'd!
... guests booking in November who have pre booked Spa treatments. Lets hope everything will be sorted out in time. Today I am off to Punakha, another of Amankora's lodges based in the Punakha valley, I have been told it is very beautiful and warm there. I ...
Punakha
Ik had de Punakha Dzong al bezocht maar in deze tijd van het jaar is de Dzong omringd door paarse bomen. En na het zien van de foto's van andere mensen wou ik toch graag eens teruggaan. Deze Dzong wordt ook de mooiste van heel Buthan genoemd, dus ...
Betel - Face
... Paro on our way to Thimphu. Chenda (our lovely guide) pointed out that we had a unique opportunity to watch Bhutan’s national sport (Archery) played right before us. There were two villages playing one another and we immediately took ...
THE BEAUTY CONTINUES
... nbsp; After that we worked are way through the road re-construction to finally arrive a total of 3 hours later in Punakha, the former capital of Bhutan until 1955. We then visited the fortress of the chief Buddhist abbot and also visted the temple ...
Best window seat EVER!
... in the A seats seem dejected. Lunch is served, and I swear they are empanadas – they are very good! I first learned of Bhutan many, many years ago from a guy who was taking the same day trip as I was in Costa Rica. He had told me ...
People and Places
Hi, my blog is to show the all fellow travellers the beauty of Bhutan and its people.... enjoy and welcome ...
BHUTAN: Valleys & Villages in Punakha
... ; Being a monk is a true example of what Buddhists believe in, that suffering is required on the path to inner peace and enlightenment. Punakha New Town We made a brief stop in the location of the new Punakha town, an area that is being rebuilt by the ...
Royal Wedding Day in Shangri-La
... for the perfect location for a remake of the Lost World of Shangri-La, need look no further than the Punakha Valley in west central Bhutan. The river meanders through a steep-sided lush valley overlooked by traditional, ornately decorated three-level farm ...
On the way to Bumthang
... (Trashichodzong). Historically, Punakha DZong has always been very important, and hence, bears special importance in the monks heirarchy of Bhutan. Punakha Dzong was the third dzong that we visited. Let me mention few important rules for any non Bhutanese ...
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