Bhutan Tour

Why Bhutan Tour, this way?

• Wonder of Culture & Nature

Bhutan is full of cultural wonders where we can witness the socio-cultural legacy of the nation that Bhutan is built on. The religious monasteries, stupas and temples are the symbol of religious tolerance of Bhutan.

Bhutan also is very famous for its natural wonders that people come to witness. The Paro valley, surrounding mountains, majestic picturesque views and panoramic hillside defines the natural beauty of Bhutan, the land of Thunder Dragon.

• Sightseeing and Hikes

We sightsee the Thimphu city including various places like Buddha Dordenma Statue, a holy Buddhist stupa National Memorial Chorten, Folk Heritage museum, ancient temple Changangkha Lhakhang and a place that preserves Takin, national animal of Bhutan.

We also hike to Tiger’s nest that distances about 4 kilometers uphill and almost 2 hours away from the starting point. All trail through dense pine forests to the Cliffside Taktsang (Tiger’s Nest) monastery, we reach at an altitude of 3,120 meters above the sea level.

• A short timed tour for travelers with limited holidays

Bhutan tour is a short timed tour especially designed for those travelers who have limited holidays. In such short space of time as well, you will be able to cover most of the favorite destined places that is in Bhutan. You will be kept in the better accommodating places served with good food in Bhutan.

• Authenticity of Bhutanese

Bhutan tour gives the good feels of authentic Bhutanese experiences. Local life of Bhutan, their traditions, cultures, religious tolerance, traces of ancient history, and other various relevance like geographical and natural too can be experienced. It is a different feeling altogether to visit such unscathed and unblemished piece of a nation’s mystical charm & beauty.

Cultural Relevance of Bhutan Tour

The Bhutan tour become completely significant with the key cultural features. It is the kingdom where ancient tradition is still followed. The tour provides the country deep cultural heritage, which offers the immersive experience for the visitors. This tour makes us observe the authentic cultural performance with mask dance and flock tradition.

The kingdoms full of cultural landscape following the ancient customs, artistic expression and social belief which gives the authentic vibes. Bhutan provides us the traditional day to day life of people not just special culture for tourist.  We can clearly observe and know about the cultural and traditional practices which holds its own profound meaning.

Traditional infrastructure

Traditional temple, pretty farmhouses with slanted roofs and homes having features of ornate carving and colorful decoration. The fortress-monastery and temples of Bhutan have intricate woodwork, white wasted walls and sloping roof with Buddhist symbol following the ancient techniques. The unique architecture made by people is the main reason to provide the spiritual values in Bhutanese society. The traditional way designing the architecture is passed through the generations.

Cultural dress and identity

The traditional dress worn by every citizen in all the society are gho which is for men and kira for women which reflect the pride and the preserved traditional dress for visitors to witness in the tour. This traditional dress of Bhutan reflects all the visual aspect of Bhutanese culture. The textile weaving culture represents the regional identities and craftmanship and temple sculpture shows the vanishing traditions. Traditional paper making is also one of the famous for cultural artwork of the festivals and ancient tradition identities.

Traditional games to enjoy

The games that give you enjoyment and refreshing vibes in the tour. Games like Archary which is national sports played with the bamboo bows along with the folk songs and dances and Khuru which is also known by dart throwing is one of a social game which we can play during festivals. This kind of games add the beauty in the tour and make us enjoy throughout the tour.

Language and oral tradition

Dzongkha is the national language spoken there which they are preserving through education and media in order to provide the visitor natural traditional beauty. We can enjoy the story telling of the myth legend with the local people which is practice is passing throughout the generation. We can directly interact with the Bhutanese families with the help of homestay which add the local taste and traditional way of living with families in the village.

Geographical Relevance of Bhutan Tour

Bhutan is the small country with beautiful landscape that gives us the unique experiences in our Bhutan tour. This country makes us feel special place to visit with its majestic peaks, high altitude place with fresh and clean environment which makes the view look amazing from everywhere. We can see the deep valleys where people live with full natural beauty of glacier carved rivers passing through valley which is the main source of drinking, irrigation for farming.

It is small country which provide us quick travel where we can see cold mountain area from warm valleys in few hours of ride. It helps us to feel different climate and can observe tropical forest, pine wood and snow in same day. The geography also reflects the culture and tradition of Bhutan which is followed from centuries. We can see the preserved beauty of nature with the balance of culture and tradition.

Special River systems

The visitor can observe beauty to use the water resources in Bhutan. The Paro and Thimphu valleys where our tour goes use the powerful waters came from glacier carved rivers for drinking waters, irrigation for farming many more work is performed by the water. The all the basic need of water is full filled with the unique system. The electricity power is also generated with the source for the valleys. This blessed water source revered in the local Bhutanese culture.

Protected area for natural beauty

Bhutan is the place where they focus to protect the natural in order to provide the aesthetics vibes. We can observe the different rare species of animals like rad pandas which shows the rich biodiversity in the Bhutan tour. We can clearly see the strict conservation laws to make sure the nature is untouched and have the pure natural feel.

The Bhutan law required 60 percentage of forested land to make the country green and protect different endangered animal like snow leopard and protect hundreds of bird species.

Unique pattern of weather

The best feature about the Bhutan tour is the special weather pattern which helps the tour to enhance the experience. We can see the cloudy morning changing into the sunny afternoon, making stunning landscape. The seasonal beauty can be observed in the Bhutan tour, spring with pleasant temperature, blooming rhododendrons and clear mountain scene. Autumn with ideal weather, clear view of Himalayas, best trekking experience with sun kiss and popular festival season.

Agricultural landscapes beauty

The country provides the stunning agricultural scenery that mix the beauty of nature. The terraced paddy field carved in the hilly region seen green in monsoon and golden during harvesting time and the beauty of the buckwheat and barley field with different seasons. The special view of apple orchards blooming white in spring form the places Paro and Thimphu where we visit in our Bhutan tour.

Tricky landscape

The challenging land observed in the tour add the adventure like single lane road shared with the domestic animals which add beauty. The difficulties are the stunning mountains road having the ancient path, narrow valleys which build boundaries in nature and isolated communities who are there preserving the traditional way of living.

Architectural Relevance of Bhutan Tour

The architecture of Bhutan not just add the beauty in infrastructure but also add spiritual symbolism and traditional values. The kingdom follows the ancient Buddhist concept to build the structure with the holy meaning of each and every proportion. The traditional theme in building is whitewashed structure with inward-sloping walls and woodwork.

The main feature of Bhutan traditional joinery techniques is making building without using nails. The architecture of temples in Bhutan used three-tiered roofs with mandala shaped layout roofs which denotes the spiritual development.  The best thing of Bhutan is that it maintains the heritage in the form of building codes which reflect traditional designs. The living architecture makes Bhutan special and unique and the old traditional way of crafting add beauty in the infrastructure. Bhutan each and every architecture tells the traditional cultural continuity which make the place different and destination to visit to observe the architecture heritage.

Organic geometry in wood and stone

Precise proportional system is followed by each and every part of building like beam, pillar and craving with the Buddhist mandalas. The symbolic structural element are columns as connecting earth and sky, lintels carved with endless knots symbolizing eternity. The door frame used in the home humble the entrance and ceiling mandalas showing the universe.

The way of making the infrastructure in Bhutan is still old which provides spiritual energy and the architecture become the place of meditation in physical form. There are different which is followed while constructing the buried mantra-inscribed stones and do first pillar ceremony with lama blessings. This brings the spiritual vibes in the Bhutan tour which gives us peace.

Old style farmhouses

The traditional style farmhouse is masterpiece in Himalayan architecture which environment are perfectly adjusted in rocky mountain reflecting the deep values. The tree-story design with sturdy stones is made to protect from earthquakes, upper levels of wooden are for warmth and outward sloping design provides stability.

The people living at farmhouse store hay and dried crops in top floor, middle part contain place to live for family and ground floor are for animals. The farmhouse adds new experience in our Bhutan tour and provides us the new experience. The farmhouses are not for visitors but this this the centuries old lifestyle preserved by families to provide natural glimpse in the tour.

Present day architectural design

In the Bhutan tour we observe the traditional design with added function of present days architecture with aesthetics look. In Thimphu we observe modern building like royal university which show us the dzong-style building with added new facilities to meet the modern needs with its classic feature arched windows, woodwork and sloping roofs.

The place Paro provide us the simple luxury facility with earth walls and solar panel with traditional wood frontage of Tema Linca Resort with traditional architecture. Paro new home should maintain mandatory the traditional beauty with modern facilities. We can also observe the national assembly in Thimphu in dzong architecture with its own beauty. The tour let us know the way to preserve traditional beauty with modern facilities.

Bridge engineering

In the Bhutan tour we can observe the ancient engineering with modern safety which reflects the love of country towards rivers and valleys. The bridge contains spiritual significance with the prayer flags for protection. The bridge shows the living history with modern technique and the bridge reflect the landscape holiness. We can clearly get the ritual vibes while crossing the bridge in Bhutan. The bridge crafts the cultural statement in iron, wood and stone make us know the culture.

Historical & political relevance of Bhutan Tour

Bhutan is the last independent Himalayan kingdom which was never colonized and carefully protect its middle age traditions. Visitor can observe the unique old and new crafts with Buddhist values and the rare flow of history and culture with modern thought. The political significant Bhutan has is birthplace of gross National happiness. The dzongs style building reflects the religious significance showing the Bhutan connection with the history.

The ancient temple od Bhutan preserve the living culture of 7^th century Buddhist heritage. The evolution from absolute monarchy to democracy with the same traditional structure is the unique feature in Bhutan political transformation. Bhutan tour shows the understanding of government for preserving culture and tradition with modern facilities.

Unbroken cultural legacy

The place where people follow medieval traditional in this modern lifestyle. The extraordinary cultural continuity is what we observe throughout the journey. There are heritage sites which provide the ancient values like Kyichu Lhakhang 7^th century temple where daily prayer is hosted. The old dzong style monasteries, government offices, traditional farmhouses are the architecture shows the cultural legacy.

In the Bhutan tour we can see the monastic school teaching Buddhist philosophy, oral story telling about the histories and the traditional medicine like Sowa Rigpa is practiced in modern hospitals. This reflects the unbroken practices of ancient culture and tradition.

Gross national happiness practice

In the tour visitor can know the revolutionary development of philosophy to promote the locally owned handicraft preserving tradition. The government plays vital role to maintain the naturality by conducting traditional attire workshops, free healthcare camp in rural areas, festival to maintain local tradition and plastic free towns and trekking route. The tour shows us the balanced modernization to provide the old lifestyle of Bhutanese

Balanced modernization

The Bhutan tour shows us the traditional dzong-inspired building in modern buildings, solar system in the wooden roofs, seismic resistant houses preserving the tradition and heritage. The development activities observed during tour are online system in handicraft markets, wifi facilities in traditional style decoration.

In the tour we can see eco-friendly lodges made with the local materials, preserving cultural landmarks for visitors, street light designed with traditional lanterns and has no high building. Visitors can enjoy the organic food in the resorts supplied from farm, farm house with satellite disks and solar heater. The unique fusion shows how Bhutan adopt modernization.

Living medieval tradition

The Bhutan tour shows us the architectural continuity of medieval age with the same farmhouses with unchanged techniques, same style bridge still in use. Visitors can observe the same old style of rituals followed by monk in temple, protecting the monasteries, still using the butter lamp in the way of ancient temples. There is still the archery competition with the old rules and regulation and still people are the traditional forging tools made by blacksmith.

The children still get the monastic classical learning to preserve the culture and prevent for upcoming generation. Bhutan loves to protect old lifestyle and flourish their natural way of living. This exceptional way of protecting culture make the Bhutan lifestyle natural.

Packing list for Bhutan tour

• Tour bag large enough to fit all your requirements
• Regular medicine prescribed by the doctor
• A windproof jacket
• Basic toiletries items such as: toilet paper, sanitizer, soap, face wash, shampoo, towels, toothpaste, toothbrush, body spray, lip care etc.
• Goggles and sun protection cream
• Shoes with good grip for a day hike, comfortable shoes multiple pair of socks
• A torch light, power bank
• Enough inner wears.
• 4- 5 passport sized photographs
• Passport / and tickets
• Thermos / Water bottle ( min/max. 1 liters )
• Mini bag for daily purpose, Camera, chargers, extra batteries
• Important identifying documents
• Cash in hand

Booking Bhutan Tour Package with us

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