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Drukgyel Dzong
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Domchoe Lhakhang
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Do Zam
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Five Chortens
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Choedu Goemba
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Kuenzang Chholing
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Jungshi Handmade Paper Factory
This small factory produces watermark paper as well as cards, lampshades, envelopes, calendars and other items made from traditional Bhutanese paper.
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Crocodile Breeding Centre
Got an hour to kill? Perhaps go and snooze with the sleepy marsh muggers and gharials at the Crocodile Breeding Centre, a 10-minute walk north of the bus station. The crocs are fed every other day at noon.
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Wangchulo Dzong
Haas Wangchulo Dzong is one of Bhutans newest, built in 1915 to replace a smaller structure. It is inside the Indian army compound (an impressive chorten marks the entrance) and so houses several army offices and a rations shop.
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Nazhoen Pelri Skills Training Centre
The Nazhoen Pelri Skills Training Centre has a program that trains girls in a one-year course to produce souvenir handicrafts. Products include hand-woven bags, embroidered purses, Bhutanese paper products, dolls and Christmas decorations. It’s a worthy cause and worth a stop.
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Zilukha Nunnery
After visiting the telecommunications tower, take Gaden Lam for great views of Thimphu and Trashi Chhoe Dzong. Just above the road is this modern nunnery, which is also called Drubthob Goemba. The site has links to Thangtong Gyelpo, and theres an interesting enclosed chorten in the
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Shek Drak
A short excursion up the valley behind the Haa Dratshang is Shek Drak, a tiny retreat centre perched on the hillside. Take the side road just south of the Haa Dratshang, by Domcho village, and continue halfway (3.5km) up the hillside towards Takchu Goemba. From here, a 10-minute wa
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Druk Home Museum
This small private museum has been developed in a traditional house on the road to Taktshang with the aim of providing Bhutan at a glance. On display are festival masks, examples of regional dress and explanations of the kabney (scarf) hierarchy. The dried foods and herbs display
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Simply Bhutan
Simply Bhutan is an interactive living museum developed for and by the youth of Bhutan through the Bhutan Youth Development Fund. Visit before the lunch break for the magic moment live performance. Visitors learn about Bhutanese traditions, get to dress up in traditional clothes a
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Dechen Phodrang
At the end of Gaden Lam is Dechen Phodrang, the site of Thimphus original 12th-century dzong. Since 1971 it has housed the state monastic school, providing an eight-year course to more than 450 students. The 12th-century paintings in the goembas Guru Lhakhang have been restored, an
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Haa Dratshang
The 70-strong monk body is housed not in the dzong but in the Haa Dratshang, also known as the Lhakhang Kharpo (White Chapel), at the southern entrance to town. An annual tsechu is held here on the eighth and ninth day of the eighth lunar month, before a large thangka is displayed
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Folk Heritage Museum
This restored three-storey, rammed-earth and timber building replicates a traditional farmhouse and is furnished as it would have been about a century ago. A guided tour of this almost-living museum is included in the admission and provides an interesting glimpse into rural Bhutane
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Voluntary Artists Studio Thimphu & Alaya Gallery
The impressive Voluntary Artists Studio Thimphu is the capitals main centre for artists. The goal of the studio is to promote both traditional and contemporary works of Bhutanese art, to provide vocational training for young artists and to act as a creative meeting venue for artist
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Ugyen Pelri Palace
The secluded wooded compound of the Ugyen Pelri Palace was built by the Paro penlop, Tshering Penjor, in the early 1900s and is now a residence of the queen mother, thus closed to the public. It is designed after Guru Rinpoches celestial paradise, Zangto Pelri, and is a beautiful e
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Lhodrak Kharchu Goemba
On the hill to the east of Jakar this large Nyingma monastery was founded in the 1970s by Namkhai Nyingpo Rinpoche and has more than 380 monks in residence. The new Tshokhang (Assembly Hall) has massive statues of Guru Rinpoche, Chenresig and Sakyamuni. If youre here between 4.30pm
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