Why Bhutan?

Bhutan is untouched, untainted and saturated with ancient people and culture; so undisturbed by outside influence. Bhutan is: unique, pristine, remote, magical, surreal and un-Americanized.

Imagine a travel destination where cyber cafés and mail carriers to remote places coexist and where crime rate is almost negligible. This makes your travel safe and comfortable. Think of a place where Toyota vehicles and riding ponies run simultaneously. Dream of a place where you can experience everything exotic, starting from phallus-welding clowns during a Mask Dances to non-stop drives along the snaking roads crawling amidst dense wilderness, exhilarating white water rafting to torturous trekking through the Snowman trek for 28 days, medieval fortresses sprouting from the top of the cliffs to innocent village folks facing foreigners with a maiden’s shyness. Are you talking of an imaginary world? No! This is real. This is Bhutan, the last Shangri-La known as Druk-Yul- the dragon kingdom, a tiny speck of 38,394km² mountainous nation sandwiched between the two giants, China in the North and India in the South, east & west surviving for centuries as an independent nation.

This is the country, which has recently attracted the world’s attention by daring to advocate its unique economic development policy of Gross National Happiness (GNH) as a truer/better indicator of measuring development, thereby challenging the conventional Gross Domestic Product (GDP) parameters. Well, one ought to be mesmerized by the guts of this young country that has emerged out of its self-imposed isolation just forty years back for thinking differently.

If you want to be pampered in a comfortable, artificial Disney world environment, do not come to Bhutan. If you wish to take a pioneering adventure to truly find yourself, as well as, one of the worlds last kept secrets of natural beauty and kind, humble people and more, discover Bhutan for yourself.