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Trongsa Slideshow
Trongsa
Travel Blogs from Trongsa, Bhutan
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Bhutan, Day 2
This is a top pick! ... mountains on roads, that really are more like lanes !!! Taktshang Goemba This is the most famous monastery in Bhutan. In English, it translates to tigers nest. It's not a bad description as this place clings to a cliff !!! Basically, ...
A plea: The News in Lhasa
... ; It's our own future well being. I hope you all are in better spirits than I am. I'm enjoying myself in Bhutan, it's beautiful landscapes, it's beautiful people, and the rich history that's rooted here, but I'm looking forward to returning ...
Hotel Phobjikha
Knowing it's winter in Bhutan, I brought my winter cloths including my skiing jacket. But winter at 2000m here isn't winter at 2000m in Europe. Cold at night (especially without any central heating!), but quite sunny and pleasant during the day. But ...
Gangtey Trek
... our final campsite with several armloads. We are camping in the feeding area of the elegant black-necked crane which migrates between Bhutan and Tibet every year. You may have heard about them on the Discovery Channel. Some guys spot a few cranes while I ...
Punakha Dzong and Chhimed Lhakhang
... Thimphu to Wangdue as we crossed a high pass. However, we did enjoy visiting our favourite Dzong (part fortress part monastery) in Bhutan at Punakha. It's located on an island in the middle of two rivers and has lovely views down the valley. There ...
Journey back to Wangdue via Gangtey
As the weather had improved by this stage, the sky was clear and blue and we could finally enjoy the famous mountain views on our return journey back to Wangdue. The highest mountains are on the northern border with Tibet and even at this time of year ...
Elections / Gangtey to Trongsa
Monday, March 24, 2008 Elections / Gangtey to Trongsa Dear Readers: Today is a national holiday as everyone is off work in order to vote in the historic first national election for parliament. We get to the nearest polling place before ...
Deeper into Bhutan...
... imagination. It started to rain shortly thereafter, so we came back, ate dinner, and read books... Day 6 Bhutan (Trongsa - Punakha): We got up and had breakfast at 8am so that we could get a headstart on the day. ...
Domkhar Festival
We attended the third and final day of the Domkhar festival, taking place in Chumey, Bumtang Valley. The festival is hosted by the local monastery and all dances are performed by the monks. Local families, friends, and children came out for ...
Cock-a-doodle-do
... in Bhutan would fall under the "dumb founded" category. So lets step back and take a look at the sexual culture of Bhutan. Tantric Buddhism has strong influences here and one of the countries favorite folk heros is a man called Drukpa Kuenly "The ...
Making friends and getting run out of the hotel
Met some Aussies who we had a drink with. The owner of the hotel was the most unhospitable hotel owner I'd ever encountered. He was the ex-goveneor of the state of Trongsa. He ought to go back into ...
Thimpu Bhutan
... right... google it if you want it right. I got pics but having trouble uploading. Arrival at Paro airport, the only one in Bhutan is down through a valley. Kinda like into Queenstown in NZ you come over the mountains and nose dive down a valley, bank hard ...
Phuentsholing
... it was last night the boys and I decided to blow the froth off a couple of king browns and reflect on last week Bhutan is an incredible place. I have no doubt it will be a vastly different place in 10 years. There is massive works and infrastructure ...
Trongsa
Today I drove over the Himalaya's and the highest point on Earth I have ever been. We headed East from Thimpu heading for Trongsa which is about 200 Km and about 7 Hr drive. All the roads here in Bhutan are the same. They are narrow mountain roads, and ...
Punaka
From Trongsa the drive back was the same, you come back the same way so the same postcard scenery etc. Today the clouds were rolling in over the hills and the weather was decidedly cooler. The drive up to Pelela pass was up through the clouds and there ...
Thimpu
... to check out town and recouperate. I walked around for a while checking the place out and found the corner. The corner where Bhutan put their first traffic lights. There not there now cos they took them out again, they thought they were too impersonal. ...
the beautiful sunday
today is my day off,Everybody togetther went to Ocean coffee shop We enjoy the music and every body had a lot of fun. Tonight every body want to go to seveenteen bar. If all other friends want to join here we are wellcome Have nice and beautiful ...
Bhutan - a land caught between 2 time zones
Paro is just about as touristy a place as it gets. The claim to fame of this wonderful land is the Tiger's Nest. By the time we reached Paro we had had our fill of monasteries and monks and scenic beauty. Frankly all we wanted was now to get away from ...
Lhuentse
... komen, het gaat helpen met de boeken gewoon open en bloot op de grond te leggen, maar wie weet zijn de muizen in Bhutan wel anders! Zondag is hier blijkbaar ook een auspicious day zodat er veel meer mensen waren dat ik gewoon was. Na verschillende dagen ...
Leading a Mini-DTS
Today, we took another jeep for about 5 hours with 11 people to RBB Village near the border of Bhutan. We will be leading a mini Discipleship Training School here for the next 3 days along with a few locals. We will be doing two and a half days of ...
The Druk Path - Day 2
... particularly interested in anything except sitting by a roaring campfire. Although marshmallows would have been a nice touch (nobody from Bhutan seems to know what a marshmallow is), our guide did break out a bottle og Bhutanese Highland Whisky - a ...
Stepped Foot in Bhutan
... country and costs about US $200 per day to get a visa to enter the country. The guard at the gate actually allowed each of us to step foot in Bhutan and take a picture. Then, we went around the corner and prayed at the gate for the ...
flinging the frizbee with the monks in Bhutan
Hi Folks: Khuruthang - Bhutan the others have gone off to pack and gary and i have the task of writing the blog on the 1992 model ACER computer. We are operating on Windows 93. Last night we spent the evening wandering in the ...
The Greatest Dzong of them all!
... from Dochala, is the Gangkar Puensum at 7541 metres. We parted with Jigme's family and continued towards Trongsa. We had lunch at Wangdue and drove past the great Wangduephodrang Dzong by the river. The old middle capital ...
People and Places
Hi, my blog is to show the all fellow travellers the beauty of Bhutan and its people.... enjoy and welcome ...
Culturally Fascinating
... hour versus the 40 cents and hour in India), here are some slightly random notes from the last several days in Central Bhutan... - I ate Doma last night - its a Beetle Nut that's dried, wrapped with dried lime and covered in a leaf. Its basically ...
God Healed Almost 100 People in 3 Days
Wow, God has moved powerfully in this village over the past 3 days. The first night, we had a fun night which turned into prayer toward the end, and God completely healed about 20 people including a few people who were deaf and regained their ...
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