Bhutan's small capital has the Tashichho Dzong, seat of government and the central monk body, beside the river, and the giant Buddha Dordenma statue on a hill, 51 m high, filled with 125,000 smaller Buddhas.
Thimphu has no traffic lights; a policeman directs traffic. Visit the weekend market and the Folk Heritage Museum. The Tshechu festival is in autumn.
A mountain pass at 3,100 m on the road from Thimphu to Punakha, with 108 white memorial chortens and, on clear days, a panoramic view of the snow-cap…
Probably the most beautiful dzong (fortress-monastery) in Bhutan, built in 1637 at the meeting of two rivers, the Pho Chhu and the Mo Chhu.
Bhutan's most famous sight: a monastery clinging to a cliff 900 m above the Paro valley, where Guru Rinpoche is said to have arrived on the back of a…
A wide glacial valley in central Bhutan, where rare black-necked cranes arrive from Tibet each winter (late October to February).
The largest dzong (fortress-monastery) in Bhutan, spread along a ridge in the centre of the country, the ancestral home of the royal family.
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