Paro is a small town of Bhutan, sheltering nearly 15,000 inhabitants and having the single airport of the country. Located at 2,250 meter altitudes, Paro is the historic center and cultural of Bhutan. The city has indeed many temples and exceptional monasteries. The monastery of Taktshang, place of pilgrimage universally known, the fort of Rinpung Dzong called also the “fortress of the banked up jewels” or the Buddhist temple of Kyichu Lhakhang, are as many monuments impossible to circumvent to discover. The city is located within an incredible environment: a valley, incredibly fertile and favourable with the culture of rice, overhung by many mountains of which the Chomolhari mount with 7,300 meter altitudes.

City with hillside, Punakha shelters splendid a dzong, term indicating the principal monastery of a district also lodging the administrative services of the country; formerly winter residence of the royal government, this impressive fortress is used today as shelter with the monastic power during the rigorous winter month. Dating from the 17th century, it was built on a spit of land to the confluence of two rivers, fallen Pho and fallen Mo, strategic place offering a perfect sight on the three valleys. It has the aspect of an immense ship. The climate allowed the development of a luxuriant and varied vegetation, with in spring the flowering of giant rhododendrons.

Brood in the middle of the Himalayas, the capital of the “Country of the Dragon Thunder” is with more than 2,300 meter altitudes and shelters approximately 80,000 inhabitants. This city is crossed by the river of Raidak and offer a juxtaposition between the old one and the modern one. The travellers will not fail to discover imposing it Buddhist monastery of Tashichho Dzong, the museum of the Folklore and the Textile, the reserve of takins (animal emblematic of Bhutan) of Motithang or the national library. Lastly, the main street (called Norzin Lam) is the ideal place for a walk with its restaurants, its coffees and its artisanal shops.

Located on the western slope of the Black Mountains, the valley of Phobjika is animalist impossible to circumvent concerning its cranes with neck black, very rare, which gather there each winter; the crane occupies an important place in the Bhutanese culture. Other animals live in this valley refrigerator, like the muntjacs, the bears and the black bears of the Himalayas, the sambars, the leopards or the foxes russet-red. The crossing of this valley makes it possible to discover many traditional hamlets and very beautiful forests. It also shelters the monastery of Gangteng, where in November the “Tsechu of the cranes is held”, a festival symbolic system.

Bumthang is one of the 20 districts (or dzongkhags) constituting the Kingdom of Bhutan. Located at the northern center of Bhutan, it has a common border with Tibet and means “oblong bottle” in reference to an object used in the Buddhist religious rites. Jakar, the most important city of the district shelters a Buddhist monastery-fortress impressing dating from the 16th century. Drawing up itself on a hill dominating the city, the dzong has a high central tower of more than 50 meters. Wild country abounding in deep valleys where the sheep feed in quasi freedom, often covered of fogs, Bumthang is favourable with the existence of myths and mysterious legends.

This charming village enjoys a particularly pleasant climate and an animated environment. Indeed, you will not fail to cross at any hour of the townsmen and the close valleys in the streets, conversing on the step of a door, to clink glasses with macaw (local alcohol), or to play karam. Do not miss imposing it dzong of 1659, which overhangs the Dangmechu river, and helped the Bhutaneses to push back the attacks Tibetans at the 17th century.

It is in this park of 650 km2, at the Eastern end of the country, which the yeti is supposed to live, this abominable snowman called migoi (strong man) by the local population. If its existence is not scientifically proven, you will be able nevertheless to see in this sanctuary of other animals like the leopard of snows, the black bear or the russet-red fox of the Himalayas.

Laya is a district in North Is of Bhutan which has the highest altitude of the country. You will meet Bhutanese ethnos groups following a trekking of one or more days according to the selected difficulty. The human experiment is worth this forwarding out of commun run.