Overview

3 Days Short Trip of Bhutan 2023/2024

Explore the vibrancy and spirituality of Bhutan by choosing this 5 nights 6 days cultural tour in Bhutan. This carefully customized tour covers all the major destination like Thimpu, Punakha and Paro offering you the best sights and experience of Bhutan. 5 nights 6 days Bhutan tour is the best escapes in the Himalayas with cultural and natural exposure to Bhutan’s rugged landscapes and steep mountain valleys. You will explore the monasteries, dzongs, temples, chortens and museums of Bhutan during this tour. Beside the glory of fascinating culture, Bhutan beholds the stunning mountain views and diverse floral & faunal species spread throughout the country.

Nestled in the folds of the Eastern Himalayas, remaining in self-imposed isolation for centuries, Bhutan opened up to the world in a glacial pace. The population lived in close harmony with nature, evolving a unique identity, derived largely from a rich religious and cultural heritage. The population of this country is in between 700000 to 800000 people in the year 2023. Bhutan is the world’s only Mahayana Buddhist country. The Buddhist respect for all sentient beings helped Bhutan protect its pristine ecology and wildlife.

This self-sufficient population was never colonized and had limited contact to the outside world. Buddhism was established in the 8th century by the Indian saint Padmasambhava, popularly known in the Tantric tradition as Guru Rinpoche. Perhaps the most dynamic era in Bhutanese history came in the 17th century with the arrival, in 1616, of Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal, the great leader of the Drukpa school of Mahayana Buddhism. He unified the country and established the foundations for national governance and the Bhutanese identity.

In 1907, a historic Assembly of the clergy, the official administration, and the people unanimously elected Gongsar Ugyen Wangchuck as the first hereditary King of Bhutan thus beginning the glorious era of the Wangchuck dynasty. In 2006, the fourth king of Bhutan, Jigme Singye Wangchuck announced that he would abdicate in favor of a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy. In 2008, the year that marked 100 years of the monarchy saw two important events; the first democratic elections and the coronation of the fifth king, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck.

PARO,VALLEY
Altitude: 2,250m / 7,382ft.

One of the most beautiful of Bhutan’s valleys, it was also historically the center of two of the most important trade routes to Tibet. Today the new road to Phuentsholing on the Indian border runs through the valley, amid a patchwork of rice, paddies, wheat fields, trout-filled streams, and scattered settlements. Here the Paro Chu (Chu means River) flows south from its watershed in the Chomolahri range. Above it in a rocky outcrop of the sleepy hillside stands the Paro Dzong, at an altitude of just over 7000 feet, overlooking both sides of the valley this dzong was historically one of Bhutan’s strongest and most strategic fortresses.

THIMPHU VALLEY

Altitude: 2,350m / 7,710ft.

The capital town of Bhutan and the center of Government, religion and commerce, Thimphu is a unique city with unusual mixture of modern development alongside ancient traditions. With the population of about 90,000 it is perhaps still the world’s only capital city without a traffic light.