Bhutan

dance

People in colourful dresses are the great performers from the Royal Academy of performing arts. The instrumental Artists are Khang Wangchuck, Khandu, Pema Wangdi and Tashi Wangdi followed by the lead vocalist Pema Lhamo and Pema Samdrup.

Bhutanese farmers enjoying their morning tea as a break from their work to build a greenhouse in Gelephu. They start working by 8 in the morning. They partake of mixed tea and butter tea or suja along with Zow (puffed rice)

highway

Entering into Thimphu City as our car follows a Bronze Wagon R taxi. Driving along the barren mountains and roadside white Chortens are quite common in Bhutan. See the colourful Bhutanese houses on both sides of the road.

Choose several corners for the bamboo poles. Dig holes, about a foot or so, on where these columns will be. They have to be large enough to hold the bamboo columns.

Things required to build a greenhouse are: 1: Bamboo 2: Rope 3: Knife (Patang) 4: Hammer 4: Nail 5: Saw etc...

music

Today the genres of music in Bhutan have outspread drastically. Singer Tshering Paljor is performing the contemporary Bhutanese song.

hills · politics

A Druk Royal Bhutan Airlines Airbus A319 lands at Paro Airport as it completes its journey from Delhi's Indra Gandhi Airport to Bhutan. Landing at Paro Airport is considered among the toughest airport landings in the world.

hills

An indigenously-developed machine that has a pressure vessel where the paste of herbal ingredients is put into to give it a thread like form so that can be easily hand-rolled onto fine incense sticks and then sun dried.

hills · temple

Chimi Lhakhang, also known as Chime Lhakhang or Monastery or temple, is a Buddhist monastery in Punakha District, Bhutan.

temple

Kyichu Lhakhang, is an important Himalayan Buddhist temple situated in Lamgong Gewog of Paro District in Bhutan.

festival · temple

Traditional village life at a country fair in central Bhutan's Bumthang valley. The festival takes place at Kurjey Temple, located at Kurjey in the Chokhor valley in Bumthang district.

There are different techniques to hull rice in and around the Country. A rice huller or rice husker is an agricultural machine used for removing the chaff of grains of the rice.

Fresh yak cheese and butter being sold at an open market in Thimphu, Bhutan. Found mostly in the Himalayan regions of Sikkim, West Bengal and Bhutan, chhurpi is not just another candy or lozenge, it’s a way of life.

A day with bees at Beekeepers' Cooperative in Bumthang, Bhutan. Beekeepers’ Association of Bhutan (BEKAB) is the sole distributor and marketer for Bhutanese honey.

temple · hills

Hundreds of People visit Taksang monastery in Bhutan. Taktsang monastery is one of the most breathtaking temples of world, in Bhutan.

hills · livestock

Haa District is one of the 20 dzongkhag or districts comprising Bhutan. Per the 2005 census, the population of Haa dzongkhag was 11,648, making it the second least populated dzongkhag in Bhutan after Gasa.

hills · forest

Driving towards Haa district from Chele la (pass) in Bhutan. Haa District is one of the 20 dzongkhag or districts comprising Bhutan.

birds · wildlife

The Green-tailed Sunbird (Aethopyga nipalensis) is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It ranges across the northern regions of the Indian Subcontinent, stretching eastwards into parts of Southeast Asia.

river · hills

Paro has the privilege of hosting Bhutan's lone airport. The Paro Chhu valley is an excellent trout stream and runs through the valley.

forest · flowers

Driving in Bhutan - winding mountain road through oak and rhododendron forest

school

Students of Yangchenphu Higher Secondary school are preparing for a exam and a final revision before entering the exam hall. The students sits in the group along the road and they are discussing and clearing their doubt.

hills · monsoon

Rapid and sudden acceleration take-off from Paro airport - said to feature the more difficult landings and take-offs at any airport in the world, as the valley is surrounded by steep hillsides and snow mountains and any approach or exit fro…

ceremony

For many Buddhists, the prayer wheel also represents the Wheel of the Law set in motion by the Buddha.