Trashiyangtse

Places to visit in Trashiyangtse Located in the eastern most part of Bhutan, Tashiyangtse is rarely touched by modernization. Some of greatest architectural creation such as Gomphu kora and Chorten kora rests here. It also serves as major wintering site for the endangered Black Naked...
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Lhuentse

Places to visit in Lhuentse Lhuentse is located in the northeastern region of Bhutan and is popularly known as the Kurtoe Valley. The valley is also the ancestral homeland for monarchs of Bhutan. The region is renowned for their art of weaving distinctive textiles called...
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Zhemgang

Places to visit in Zhemgang Zhemgang which lies in the south-central region of the country is a place that gives a bit of everything. The remote location has helped it to retain Bhutanese antique culture. To engulf in Bhutanese traditional rural lifestyle, Zhemgang is worth...
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Mongar

Places to visit in Mongar A drive from Bumthang to Mongar has an incredible journey into luscious rhododendron forests with spectacular view of virgin mountains like Gangkhar Puensum at 7541 m and gorgeous valleys. Mongar can be treated as the capital of the eastern Bhutan...
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Trashigang

Places to visit in Trashigang Trashigang lies in the far east of Bhutan, and is the country’s largest district. Trashigang town, on the hillside above the Gamri Chu (river), was once the center for a busy trade with Tibet. Today it is the junction of...
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Samdrup Jongkhar

Places to visit in Samdrup Jongkhar The road from Trashigang to Samdrup Jongkhar, completed in the 1960s, enables the eastern half of the country to access and benefit from trade with the south as well as across the Indian border. There is little to see...
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Bumthang

Places to visit in Bumthang This lovely valley is the religious heartland of the nation and home to some of its oldest Buddhist temples and monasteries. Tales of Guru Padmasambhava and the tertons (“religious treasure-discoverers”) still linger in this sacred region. Bumthang is located in...
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Trongsa

Places to visit in Trongsa This town, perched on steep slopes above a river gorge, forms the central hub of the nation and is the place from where attempts at unifying the country were launched in former times. The landscape around Trongsa is spectacular and...
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