Bhutan
Bhutan
A Himalayan kingdom of cliff monasteries and valley fortresses, changing on its own terms.
- DestinationBhutan
- CountryBhutan
- TypeInternational holiday
Overview
About Bhutan
Bhutan is small, mountainous and deliberately slow to change. The country lies between India and Tibet, its valleys separated by high passes, and its towns built around dzongs — fortress-monasteries that still serve as both religious houses and district administrative centres.
Paro Taktsang, the Tiger's Nest, is the image most people arrive with: a monastery fixed to a cliff face high above the Paro valley and reached on foot. Beyond it the country is a sequence of valleys — Thimphu, Punakha, Bumthang — each with a dzong of its own.
Good to know
Worth Knowing Before You Go
- Paro Taktsang stands roughly 900 metres above the floor of the Paro valley and is reached on foot.
- Bhutan measures progress by Gross National Happiness alongside conventional economic indicators.
- The country's dzongs serve as monasteries and as district administrative centres at the same time.
- Bhutan is constitutionally required to keep at least sixty percent of its land under forest cover.
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