Travels

PARO TIGER NEST
Paro Taktsang (Dzongkha: སྤ་གྲོ་སྟག་ཚང་, also known as the Taktsang Palphug Monastery and the Tiger’s Nest), is a prominent Himalayan Buddhist sacred site and the temple complex is located in the cliffside of the upper Paro valley in Bhutan.
A temple complex was first built in 1692, around the Taktsang Senge Samdup cave where Guru […]

TRASHI YANGTSE DISTRICT
Trashiyangtse District is one of the twenty dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. It was created in 1992 when the Trashiyangtse district was split off from Trashigang District. Trashiyangtse covers an area of 1,437.9 square kilometres (555.2 sq mi). The district seat is Trashiyangtse.
Trashiyangtse District contains Kulong Chu Wildlife Sanctuary, established in 1993, itself part of the […]

TRASHI YANGTSE SCHOOL
Institute for Zorig Chusum

Under the Leadership of H.E. Lyonpo Sangay Ngeydup the than Chairman of the National Technical Training Authority (NTTA) the Rigney Training Institute was established on 2nd June 1997 inTrashiyangtse Dzongkhag with an …AltroUnder the Leadership of H.E. Lyonpo Sangay Ngeydup the than Chairman of the National Technical Training Authority (NTTA) […]

TRONGSA BHUTAN
Trongsa, previously Tongsa, is a town and capital of Trongsa District in central Bhutan. The name means “new village” in Dzongkha. The first temple was built in 1543 by the Drukpa lama Ngagi Wangchuk, who was the great-grandfather of Ngawang Namgyal, Zhabdrung Rinpoche, the unifier of Bhutan.
The Dzong – Chökhor Raptse Dzong at Trongsa […]

GUWAHATI KAMAKHYA TEMPLE
INDIA ASSAM
The Kamakhya Temple (Assamese: kāmākhyā mandir); also Kamrup-Kamakhya is a Hindu temple dedicated to the mother goddess Kamakhya. It is one of the oldest of the 51 Shakti Pithas. Situated on the Nilachal Hill in western part of Guwahati city in Assam, India, it is the main temple in a complex of […]

STRAY DOGS BHUTAN
Bhutan is a small Buddhist kingdom tucked in the Himalayas and known best for its Gross National Happiness index. Among tourists, it’s also known for its huge stray dog population.
Listen to the Story.
“You notice it as soon as you get off the plane,” says Twig Mowatt, an animal rights activist and editor of Bark Magazine. […]

BHUTAN STRAY DOGS
Dawa has many amazing qualities, but it was his voice that shaped his life. His howling started with a low pitched, muffled bark that progressed into a shrill crescendo, lingered for what seemed like forever as a chilling tenor and then suddenly dropped back to the low pitched, muffled bark, and on and […]

DAWA STRAY DOG BHUTAN
Dawa knew to be suffering from the dreaded dog disease, mange.
“I just don’t like the look of this dog”, he often heard people say. But it saddened him immensely how repulsed people felt about dogs in mange.
He thought that it was really not fair, as it was not the dog’s choice to […]

Chendebji Chöten, built in the style of the great Bodhanath Chöten of Nepal, was constructed by Tshering Wangchuk son of Yon-Say and the Mahasiddha Zhidag in accordance with the prophecy of the Second Gangteng Tulku Tenzin Lekpai Dhundrup in order to subdue harmful, anti religious demons. It is located 41 km west of Trongsa in Bhutan […]

MONGAR BHUTAN
onggar District is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. Monggar is the fastest-developing dzongkhag in eastern Bhutan. A regional hospital has been constructed and the region is bustling with many economic activities. Monggar is noted for its lemon grass, a plant that cMongar is a town and the seat of Mongar District […]

CHIMI LHAKHANG BHUTAN
Chimi Lhakhang, also known as Chime Lhakhang or Monastery or temple, is a Buddhist monastery in Punakha District, Bhutan. Located near Lobesa, it stands on a round hillock and was built in 1499 by the 14th Drukpa hierarch, Ngawang Choegyel, after the site was blessed by the “Divine Madman” the maverick saint Drukpa […]

PARO DZONG BHUTAN
Rinpung Dzong è un grande monastero e fortezza nel distretto di Paro, in Bhutan. Diverse scene del film Piccolo Buddha furono girate in questo monastero e nei dintorni.
Nel 1645 i signori di Humrel offrirono il loro piccolo forte a Shabdrung Ngawang, un monaco Drukpa, che cominciò la costruzione di una fortezza molto più […]

THIMPHU BHUTAN
Thimphu  is the capital and largest and only city of the Kingdom of Bhutan. It is situated in the western central part of Bhutan and the surrounding valley is one of Bhutan’s dzongkhags, the Thimphu District. The ancient capital city of Punakha was replaced by Thimphu when it was established as capital in 1955, […]

DOCHULA MEMORIAL PASS BHUTAN
The Dochula Pass is a mountain pass in the snow covered Himalayas within Bhutan on the road from Thimpu to Punakha where 108 memorial chortens or stupas known as “Druk Wangyal Chortens” have been built by Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuk, the eldest Queen Mother. Apart from the chortens there is a monastery […]

JAKAR BHUTAN
Jakar is a town in the central-eastern region of Bhutan. It is the district capital (dzongkhag thromde) of Bumthang District and the location of Jakar Dzong, the regional dzong fortress. The name Jakar roughly translates as “white bird” in reference to its foundation myth, according to which a roosting white bird signaled the proper […]

PUNAKHA DZONG BHUTAN
The Punakha Dzong, (meaning very awesome dzong “the palace of great happiness or bliss”), is the administrative centre of Punakha District in Punakha, Bhutan. Constructed by Ngawang Namgyal, 1st Zhabdrung Rinpoche, in 1637–38, it is the second oldest and second largest dzong in Bhutan and one of its most majestic structures. The dzong […]