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Showing posts with label Bhutan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bhutan. Show all posts
25 August 2016

5. - 25 August: Jakar to Mongar

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We wake up at 6 o'clock, have breakfast and hit the road by 7. Low clouds at dawn give room to a sunny morning very quickly and it prom...
24 August 2016

4. - 24 August: Bumthang

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Today we drove about two hours each way, to the Tang valley. For lunch we had the opportunity to taste the food prepared in a farm house. ...
23 August 2016

3. - 23 Aug: From Paro to Jakar, Bhumtang

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Keeping Paro clean A couple of hours in Paro in the morning, just getting acquaited with the small town and doing a little shopping. Loc...
22 August 2016

2. - 22 August: From Bangkok to Paro, Bhutan

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Early checlout and transfer to BKK airport, where we leave our bags intended for our subsequent trip to China at the left luggage. It is a...
20 August 2016

0. - 20 August: Departure to Bhutan

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Off we go: time to fly again to Asia. I can never get enough. Destination Bangkok, where we plan to spend a night at a hotel near the airp...
20 June 2016

Book review: A Splendid Isolation (2014) by Madeline Drexler, *****

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Synopsis What does Bhutan understand about happiness that the rest of the world does not? Award-winning journalist and author Madeline D...
29 February 2016

Book review: Married to Bhutan (2011) by Linda Leaming, ****

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Synopsis Tucked away in the eastern end of the Himalayas lies Bhutan—a tiny, landlocked country bordering China and India. Impossibly re...
17 February 2016

Book Review: Bhutan - Himalayan Mountain Kingdom (2009) by Françoise Pommaret, *****

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Synopsis Shoe-horned into the Grand Himalayas, Bhutan - Land of the Peaceful Thunder Dragon - is a fiercely independent kingdom that celeb...