Bhutan

school · hills

Thimphu also in the past spelled as Thimpu, is the capital and largest city 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.

temple

The Kings of Bhutan derive their power from the seat of the Penlop of Trongsa! Penlop of Trongsa (Dzongkha: ཀྲོང་གསར་དཔོན་སློབ་; Wylie: Krong-gsar dpon-slob), also called Chhoetse Penlop (Dzongkha: ཆོས་རྩེ་དཔོན་སློབ་; Wylie: Chos-rtse dpon-…

Monks who are living in the Trashigang dzong, Bhutan and they are happily living out there, following the pure buddhism path for enlightenment. The monasteries spread throughout Bhutan.

village

The success of this initial initiatives depends upon the regular supply of energy. traditionally, the people of Bhutan have used petrol and kerosene as fuel.

industry · river

Pasakha is an industrial town in Bhutan closed to Phunthsoling. It is already home to several large industries - Bhutan carbide and chemicals (BCCL), Bhutan ferroalloys limited (BFAL), Tashi carbon, all of which were established in the earl…

highway · hills

This is a drive to Thimphu from Chukha valley. It takes 2 hours to reach the capital city of Bhutan, Thimphu. One passes through Chunzom and villages like Bondey, right after the airport.

hills

Incense sticks are dried out in the sun after the mixture of the herbal ingredients are rolled onto the bamboo sticks to coat the stick evenly.

Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (Cladium mariscus), rushes, or heather, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof.

Bhutan, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked state in South Asia, located at the eastern end of the Himalayas and bordered to the south, east and west by the Republic of India and to the north by the People's Republic of China.…

festival · temple

The festival takes place at Kurjey Temple, located at Kurjey in the Chokhor valley in Bumthang district. It is a 15 minute drive from Chamkhar town to arrive at the temple grounds.

festival · temple

The Dochula Druk Wangyel Festival start from year 2011 and the festival will take place every year on December 13 at the Druk Wangyel Lhakhang’s Festival ground.The festival is related to important national landmarks while the date commemor…

fort

Rinpung Dzong is a large dzong - Buddhist monastery and fortress of the Drukpa Lineage of the Kagyu school in Paro District in Bhutan. It houses the district Monastic Body and government administrative offices of Paro Dzongkhag.

wildlife · birds

The russet sparrow (Passer rutilans), also called the cinnamon or cinnamon tree sparrow, is a passerine bird of the sparrow family Passeridae.

sport

Bhutnese men aim their target using traditional arrow and bamboo bow as they participate in an archery competition in Paro. Archery, the national sport of Bhutan, is a common feature of everyday life.

highway

Evening driving on the signal free roads of Thimphu, the capital and largest city of Bhutan. Driving towards Paro on a cogestion free bypass road in Thimphu.

river

This is 1990's archival footage of Bhutan's most fortified dzong. The King's lineage comes from the Trongsa penlop. Trongsa dzong monastery is the largest dzong fortress in Bhutan, located in Trongsa district.

dance

During the commemoration of Bhutan Week in India, 2018 artists from the RAPA or Royal Academy of Performing Arts perform the mystic masked Cham dance or the Drametse Ngacham.

wildlife · birds

The Black-necked Crane (Grus nigricollis) is a medium-sized crane in Asia that breeds on the Tibetan Plateau and winters mainly in remote parts of India and Bhutan.

aerial

Flying over eastern India as a flight heading towards Bhutan. Bhutan, a Buddhist kingdom on the Himalayas’ eastern edge, is a land of monasteries, fortresses (or dzongs) and dramatic topography ranging from subtropical plains to steep mount…

A Stupa is a physical monument that memorializes the enlightenment achieved by those passed, radiates enlightened energy to all beings throughout space in the present, and continuously sows the seeds and causes of future enlightenment throu…

Wangdue Phodrang is a town and capital of Wangdue Phodrang District in central Bhutan. It is located in Thedtsho Gewog. The town shares its name with the dzong, built in 1638 which dominates the district.

industry

Handmade Paper Factory in Bhutan: laying sheets out to dry. Jungshi means a 'Natural'. The handmade paper making begins to find its place as the most important part of Bhutanese culture and tradition.