What is the best time to travel to Bhutan? While many guidebooks will recommend making your reservations for the fall or spring months, more and more “in the know” Bhutanese travelers prefer to travel during the wet summer or the cold winter months. These exotic vacationers reason that during the off season, fewer western tourists show up, and the privacy and serenity allows them to enjoy and get to know Bhutanese culture in a more natural context.
Another myth which pervades Bhutanese tourism literature is the notion that the monastic festivals held in places like Paro and Thimphu are by and large the biggest tourist draws the country offers. While these festivals at centuries old monasteries and fortresses, called dzongs, are certainly exciting, unique, and culturally edifying, Bhutan above all offers lush landscapes, stunning vistas of the highest unclimbed peaks in the world, dense forests, and incredible wildlife. As a veteran traveler, you want to trek pristine valleys where few have gone, explore a truly “off the beaten path” location that is treasured by historians and cultural anthropologists all but largely off limits to run of the mill tourists from western nations. To do that, and to penetrate the veil of this closed kingdom, however, you need to obtain the services of an experienced travel organization.
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