Every city, town in Bhutan is located in a valley, with a river passing by through the middle, leading you to ponder that what they said about civilisations coming up by river sides were true….Punakha town, too, dwells by the Phochu Mo Chu rivers. And it was only when we […]
The distance from Thimpu to Punakha is about 80 Kms and takes a total of 3 hours if you were to drive non-stop. The drive is fine up to the Dochula Pass, despite the road widening work that is going on. However, the one and half hour drive from the […]
Visit Bhutan during Spring: We chose May, since that was the only time we get a long break from Ridi’s school. Two weeks end-May suited us best. This meant that we’d be in Bhutan in the last leg of Spring. Spring starts around end March here and Bhutan is full […]
Shopping in Bhutan was high on our agenda – after all the colourful Masks, the exquisite hand-made Kiras and Waist Bands, Thankas, Woven Bags, Stoles, even the traditional Jewellery allure you enough. We checked out the shops in Thimpu for some good items and good deals. And found that Thimpu […]
Calling Thimpu a city seems to be a misnomer. It’s a town – a small town (by Indian standards). Nestled in a valley, with the Wan Chhu river flowing through the middle, Thimpu looked to me every bit of a happy town. Sonam, our guide, had asked us to be […]
This classy and utterly colonial hotel in Darjeeling had been a boarding house for bachelor tea-planters from England and Scotland initially way back in the 19th century. It was converted to the famous ‘Windamere Hotel’ in the 1930s, post which, started an era of high profile stays from around the […]
Drive from Phuentsoling to Thimpu in Bhutan has probably been one of our most beautiful drives in recent times. Our guide, Sonam, who we met the previous evening for the Entry Permit/Pass formalities, had told us that we should start early from Phuentsoling in order to make it to Thimpu […]
Hotel Druk in Phuentsoling, Bhutan’s border town, is just about 300m from Phuentsoling’s Entry Gate. We were staying overnight in Phuentsoling for two reasons – one, we needed to get our Bhutan Entry Permit/Pass at the Immigration Office here. Second, we had reached the border town around 4 in the […]