Welcomes You to BHUTAN
A company offering first-rate, friendly tours in the rugged land of
the Gross National Happiness – Bhutan.
Wherever you go
in Bhutan, the chances are that you will be traveling in a
sub-tropical zone at one moment and on high passes over treeline in
the next hour. This is because Bhutan’s altitude ranges from 200 to
7500 metres above sea level. As a result of the huge altitudinal
range, Bhutan’s forests and climate vary from sub-tropical to the
artic, all within 100 km of North-South distance. Its high
eco-floristic diversity consists of more than 7000 known species of
plants, 770 birds species and 200 species of mammals. It is a
country where man has lived in harmony with nature, and human
settlements seem like small specks in an ocean of dense and diverse
vegetation. And it is also a place where attitude to wild life-
even when some of those which destroy crops like wild boards, bears,
monkeys and deer – is not yet adversarial. When farmers find these
depredators eating their crops before people do, they shout them out
of fields instead of threatening them with weapons!
 Bhutan
is also an uncommon country in that its development creed is not
economic growth but Gross National Happiness. The country’s
monarch, His Majesty the King, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, is renown
internationally not only for his pro-democratic reforms, but also
for his government’s public policies based on Gross National
Happiness. Accordingly, the Bhutanese government promotes happiness
as the main objective of development and preserves a slow and
attentive life style that sustains peace and contentment.
Bhutan is an
exceptional country in many ways. It has always been independent,
never colonised, inspite of being small, with around 600,000
people. Yet it is surrounded by two most populous neighbours –
India and China. Buddhism has enjoyed an uninterrupted history in
Bhutan since the 8th century. The architecture and arts
of the country are a reflection of this continuity. Its rugged and
dramatic landscape is dotted with thousands of pilgrim sites related
to tantric Buddhist personages. Come and visit a country where
bureaucrats work in commanding medieval fortresses alongside monks
residing in them. Watch annual celebrations and performances in
majestic stone-paved courtyards of the fortresses that draw local
public in their fineries. Visit handsome traditional village houses
that you will hardly expect ordinary farmers to own.
DRUK KUENCHHAAP
TOURS & TRAVELS
offers exclusive services throughout the country in a wide range of
products, from nature to culture tourisms. Our company caters to
growing scientific, cultural, trekking and other leisure interests
in Bhutan.
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