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Motithang Hotel Thimphu

Thimphu, Bhutan

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Ongelooflijk mooi Bhutan

A travel blog entry by tonenpaul

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De volgende etappe van onze reis is aangebroken. We verlaten Nepal en vertrekken naar Bhutan. We gaan op tijd naar het vliegveld want vorige ervaringen heeft geleerd dat de douane formaliteiten bij het verlaten van Nepal erg lang duren. Helaas is dit nog steeds niet veranderd. Er zijn 2 functionarissen die erg langzaam ieder paspoort controleren en daarna een stempel zetten. Lange rijen dus en veel zenuwachtige mensen. Na meer dan een uur zijn we er eindelijk doorheen ...

Bhutan: Land of the Dragon

A travel blog entry by paulandton

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It is time to start a new chapter of this trip. Time to leave the busy, crowded and noisy streets of Kathmandu behind us. The flight from Kathmandu to Paro (Bhutan) was quite a spectacular one. First we got to see the top of Mt Everest and then the final descent into Paro was breathtaking as we zigzagged through the mountains before landing. We have arrived in the land of Gross National Happiness. From now on we don't need to worry anymore about where to eat and sleep how to ...

We start our exploration of Bhutan

A travel blog entry by diannemurray

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... When we told her they liked mangroves, she told us that she lived within half an hour of the Everglades in Florida, and she’d never seen them. Eventually she googled them, and had to admit that yes, there was such a thing, and yes, they were in many countries of the world. She even started to accept some of our advice about how to treat them. This, however, didn’t stop her from acting as if she had some major life-threatening disease that she ...

Royal Wedding Day in Shangri-La

A travel blog entry by bdsaly

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... use eating utensils) doled out large scoops of red rice, spinach and the ever-present peppers.

Finally, the distinguished guests started arriving to take up their positions in the tents according to rank and protocol: the religious hierarchy – Bhutan’s religious head, considered of equal rank to the king, abbots, lamas, monks and even one reincarnation (a teenager who had been identified as the latest reincarnation of a disciple of the Precious ...

At the end of every hike

A travel blog entry by bdsaly

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Bhutan is the classic buffer state, sandwiched as it is between China to the north and India to the south, east and west. Politically and economically, Bhutan is dominated by India. In 1971 when Bhutan joined the UN, they called in Indian cartographers to map the country's borders; what few paved roads there are in the country have been built and are maintained by the Indian army; modern buildings including housing in Bhutan’s capital Thimpu are built by Indian construction ...

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