Paro Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Immersion in local culture and life has been so easy with Tsetan's gentle and thoughtful guidance. Not only did we saunter by rows of marketeers selling local produce but we sniffed touched and even tasted unique items. The names of most have quickly faded but the vibrant colours and jolly traders remain. Goods were weighed in hand held balances...

Kathmandu has become a bit of a topic to joke about amongst our tour group. Definitely of all the places we have visited in the Himalayas it has had the least charm. Moreover, we just kept ending up back there. Kathmandu was our original point of entry and first place we toured, we stopped by again on route to Tibet, and then we returned to spen...

A few years ago, we were in Bodhgaya, which is commonly known as the home of Buddhism. Whilst there, our Seppoe friend Meghan was all excited as we entered the Bhutan monastery. When questioned, she said that this would be the closest she would ever get to being there, but from that day onwards thoughts ran around my head. The Plan I tried vario...

Made it! Well - almost! As disappointing as it was not to make it all the way to the top most Temple, only made it 3/4ers of the way, as my knees and ankles just gave up after 5 days of extreme hiking/treking- (I did 5,000 feet decent the day prev). On + side: I did enjoy the twinkling setting sun on it, with my new monk friends; Drinking Tea, p...

We cleaned and dried ourselves off after the walk and Maggi put into action the plan she had been forming with Phub. To mark Jerry's arrival into maturity (yeah right) as an old man of the grand old age of 40, he was dressed up in a Gho, the national Bhutanese costume. Despite protests that it might offend the locals and the challenge of finding...

This morning Roo, Lulu, Name and Miran all dressed in their traditional Bhutanese costumes - the kira, a wraparound dress together with a silk blouse called a wongju and a satin jacket called a tego. Inevitably we put them on really badly (there is a real technique to dressing in a kira) so a local girl from the hotel had to come and straighten ...