Bumthang Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 Trongsa to Bumthang Dear Readers: We start the day driving over yet another mountain pass. The views are completely captivating, and the traffic is light as always. The roads are not really two lanes, and I wonder how many cars plunge over unprotected curves every year. We walk the last kilometer or so to the top of the p...

We spent 11 days in Bhutan - just enough to brush the surface of this very different, fascinating, friendly culture and people. Bhutan (or "Druk Yul," the land of the Thunder Dragon) is an isolated, fiercely independent Buddhist Himalayan kingdom that, unlike unlucky Tibet to the north, has never been invaded or occupied. To this day very few ou...

So we were back in Bumthang late Sunday night. Next morning Miranda put on her new hand woven kira (traditional Bhutanese dress) and borrowed a matching silk jacket from a lovely girl working in the hotel. We then all went off to the festival at Tamshing monastery. This is like a country fair with religious overtones. Everyone was dressed in the...

Sober tonight! left Thimphu at 7.45am this morning and drove to Bumthang where we arrived at 7pm. We stopped off in Wangdue Phodrang in the morning and then had a picnic lunch somewhere below Pele La pass. Cheese sandwiches, fried chicken, boiled potatoes, boiled eggs, locally produced apple juice and a banana. Don't worry, it had only been hang...