You come to Chendebji on your way to Bumthang or Gangtey. We are driving from Punakha to Bumthang and arrived at Chendebji around 2 pm in the afternoon, famished. Sonam, our guide, took us to Chendebji Resorts for lunch. He had asked us about our lunch preference in the morning […]
Listen, I had promised last year that I’d be back to the Mosque Road in Frazer Town in Bangalore for the Ramadan Feast. Wouldn’t it be a sin of the highest proportions then, if the Foodie didn’t keep his Food-promise? Knowing that a friend from Mumbai was in Bangalore too, […]
Punakha to Bumthang is a little more than 200 Kms and takes a total of about 8-9 hours, considering you are driving in the hills. Once of the most picturesque drives, cutting past charming hamlets, serene farmlands, hours and hours of deep forests and valleys, hills filled with Rhododendrons of […]
Admiring the Punakha Suspension Bridge and the river that flowed underneath, we made a demand of Sonam, our guide. We wanted to go and play in the river!! Sonam smiled. And said that our hotel for the night’s stay in Punakha was by the riverside. Really?, we asked, scarely believing […]
This is a photo-essay, and I have promised to myself that I won’t write much (I realise, with utter surprise, that I have been completely unable to restrict myself to a few words while doing the Bhutan posts). Suffice to say that while clicking the beautiful paintings, architecture of the Punakha […]
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 […]