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Cultural, Spiritual and Trekking Highlights

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Our Canadian family traveled to Bhutan for the month of October, and we also spent a couple weeks scuba diving in Thailand (Phuket) on the way home. We are two adults (in the grey-haired category...ie, over 60) traveling with our 18 year old son.

Here's a bit of our …

Our 1st trek

We went hiking for like 1 hour up the hills of the Jigme Dorji national Park to visit the Chari monastery (Tango DO). If this hiking was a warm up for what we will be doing in Annapurna (Nepal) we are doomed? It was doable but hard.

Along the way you have a stupa and some signs that lead up to story tails from the man who built the …

A Breath of Fresh Air

Mark:

The Flight
On the flight into Bhutan, the seating plan left Jed sat by someone else, with Dad behind him – We were going to ask for the seats to be changed, but Jed turned out to be having a "good behaviour / very cute" episode and the man at the side of him turned out to be the Bhutan Education Minister, who seemed to be …

Thimphu & The Coronation Ceremonies, Part 1

Early morning and we were down for breakfast by 7am. First off this morning was a short drive up the mountainside to visit a wildlife reserve dedicated to the rare Takin, a creature with religious significance in Bhutan and almost exclusively now in captivity dure to its dwindling numbers. It is said that the Takin was created by a saint, using the …

Newsflash

Bhutan is not only known for its Dzongs and the mountains but also for being a very-much-latecomer to modernity. There had been no TV and no internet access before 1999, and the influx of tourists and foreigners is still strictly limited. But there is change in Bhutan . Against some reluctance on the part of his people, the King has initiated the …

Sightseeing in Thimphu

Lots of sightseeing, including the Memorial Chorten, a big stupa with lots of monks chanting and playing music, the National Library, Textile Museum, Arts and Crafts School, traditional hospital where Maggi proceeded to ask about cures for constipation in infinite detail, and the Takin reserve. The Takin is a weird creature unique to Bhutan that is …