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09/01/2023

While the concern was that the Sustainable Development Fee of Nu 1,200 imposed on tourists from India would restrict tourists from the neighbouring country, a group of 36 tour operators from India had better ideas, in line with the tourism policy.

09/01/2023

Dochula Mountain pass.

09/01/2023

Questioning Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness, and what makes it one of the toughest countries to visit in the world

09/01/2023

If 2022 was the year of recovery for the travel world, then 2023 is the year of regaining freedom and pursuing discovery.

01/01/2023

The year 2022 has been a tremendous year of transformation and risk-taking for Bhutan. We have finally done many things that we have only thought about or didn't even think about to this day. It's too early to get any sense of where it would take us but what matters is that we have done it. I am opt...

01/01/2023

Nature Enthusiasts Mr. TRV from Bangalore with Bhutan Guide Nima C-ring traveling around Bhutan for Birding.









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01/01/2023

Fun Times to be remembered with our guest, New year Eve. 2023
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01/01/2023

Wonderful start to begin New Year 2023. Thank you Mr. TRV and family for choosing our company Bhutan SNS Tours (Bhutan Sun Star Tours and Trek) with Guide Nima C-ring for your culture and Nature trip to Bhutan, we are honored to have hosted you these 8 days. Time have past so fast with fun and enjoyment with your family, I hope you would have had fun too. Happy to see you all landed safe to your hometown. Happy New Year!!! See you all again.

01/01/2023

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24/12/2022

The best places around the world to visit in 2023 including New Zealand, Orlando, Bhutan, Ecuador and more.

24/12/2022

𝐻𝐴𝑃𝑃𝑌 𝐿𝑂𝑀𝐵𝐴 | ལོ་འབག་བཀྲིས་བདེ་ལེགས 🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹
𝑇𝑜 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠❤️

The “Lomba” or “becoming one year older” is another common festival in Paro. It is observed from the 29th of the 10th month to the 3rd of the 11th month of Bhutanese calendar. On the 29th evening, there is ritual in driving away the evil – “Lue”.

The New Year (ལོ་གསརཔ་) celebrated in Paro and Haa is commonly known as Lomba (ལོ་འབག). It is one of the most special occasions in these two western districts. It is very hard to trace the history of this occasion as there are no definitive records. Some believe that this Lomba celebration began with human settlement when people started working for food. Some believe that Lomba began with the arrival of Phajo Drugom Zhikpo in the 13th century while some think it started even earlier. Despite the obscuration of its origins, Lomba is an important occasion and a tradition which has continued for many centuries in Paro and Haa.

Lomba usually falls in late autumn when all crops have been harvested and people get some free time before they begin the next season of work. It is on the 29th day of the 10th month in the Bhutanese calendar and it is celebrated for at least five days. In Paro, Lomba celebration goes on until the 2nd day of the tenth month while in Haa it often goes on until the 15th day. Lomba indicates the passing of the old year and the coming of the new year. Lomba is a family time full of joy and displays of prosperity to welcome a new prosperous year. Lomba is also an opportunity for young people to have fun. On the evening of the 29th day of the lunar month, children used to go around the village shouting ‘Lolay, Lolay’(ལོ་ལེགས་). Young boys go around the village homes carrying a long stick with basket hanging on one end. They sing Lolay Lolay until the owners come out and place a höntö (regional style of dumpling) in the basket. Lo ley is a rhyme, which is the wish for a good New Year.

For the people of Haa, höntö (ཧོན་ཏེ་) is a special food and is an important part of the Lomba events. Because Haa is too high and too cold for rice to grow, buckwheat and wheat are staple foods. Höntö is a steamed momo-like dumpling made with a mixture of dry turnip leaves, amaranth seeds (zimtsi), and chili prepared in fermented cheese and wrapped in a dough made of buckwheat flour. Höntö were traditionally offered to the nobility as a gesture of respect and goodwill. In Paro the staple diet is usually rice and meat. Meat is an important part of Lomba diet, with a wide variety served such as beef, pork, chicken and sometimes yak meat, intestines are stuffed with rice and butter called jomju (ཇོམ་རྒྱུ་).

During Lomba, residents perform a small ceremony at home to drive off the evil and bring health, happiness and prosperity in the New Year. In some communities, people make offerings to the deities. If offerings are not made properly, the local deities may get annoyed and cause harm. Therefore, there is great spiritual significance to the offering. Lomba is considered as common birthday for the Parops and Haaps. Every Paro and Haa resident considers himself or herself one year older after Lomba.

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24/12/2022

𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝐾𝑢𝑝𝑎𝑟 🇧🇹❤️

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24/12/2022

23/11/2022

“…Those who seek us out are called here. Arriving as guests, you become our partners in this transformative moment, and make a meaningful contribution towards preserving what is priceless…Our future requires us to protect our heritage, and to forge fresh pathways for forthcoming generations.” – Bhutan Believe.

Will Smith, an American actor, comedian, producer, rapper, and songwriter is in Bhutan on a documentary project. ‘Men in Black, ‘King Richard’, ‘Ali’, ‘Independence Day’ and ‘The Pursuit of Happyness’ are some of his iconic movies.

The Department of Tourism welcomed our special guest with a gift titled – 'Happiness in a box,' which coincidentally connects with his movie – 'The Pursuit of Happyness.'

21/11/2022

“Technology hasn't got all the answers, and sometimes - just sometimes - what is needed is spirituality, time and some good mountain air.”
-Jane Wilson-Howarth

21/11/2022

It's a great honour to have you Will Smith here in Bhutan! Hope you'll have a wonderful vacation la 😘

21/11/2022

𝗕𝗵𝘂𝘁𝗮𝗻 𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱'𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱-𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯

𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘓𝘦𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘉𝘩𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘯 2𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥'𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘱 50 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴

Travel Lemming, a US-based online travel guide read by more than 6 million travellers, on 15 November announced its list of the top 50 destinations in the world for 2023.

Bhutan was named the best place to travel in Asia next year, and the number 2 destination overall in the world.

The annual list of 50 best places to travel highlights emerging destinations and hidden gems around the world.

Carissa Nimah, Chief Marketing Officer of The Department of Tourism, Bhutan commented: “Bhutan has long practiced a policy of ‘high value, low volume’ tourism to protect and preserve its peace, its sacred places and its wilderness. Bhutan is already an incredibly alluring destination ... yet there are still so many more layers to be revealed and shared.”

Nimah continued: “We invite all travelers to visit Bhutan to experience the inspiration, mystique, spirituality, adventure and energy of Bhutanese culture. It’s an honour for us to be included in the list of the best places to travel for 2023. Welcome to Bhutan.”
In explaining why Bhutan was selected, the article says Bhutan “Is a special place with breath-taking scenery and the freshest air you will ever inhale.”

The annual list is a collaborative project of the publication’s team of more than 25 travel writers and editors.
The top 10 destinations on the list are:
• 1 - Lafayette, Louisiana
• 2 - Bhutan
• 3 - Utila, Honduras
• 4 - Ile Sainte Marie, Madagascar
• 5 - Kosovo
• 6 - Salento, Colombia
• 7 - Vanuatu
• 8 - Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia
• 9 - Uzbekistan
• 10 - Detroit, Michigan

By region, the full list of 50 destinations includes 7 destinations in Europe, 5 in Asia, 4 in South America, 4 in Oceania, 4 in Africa,

24/10/2022

24/10/2022

24/10/2022

✨✨His Majesty at Royal Highland Festival✨✨

24/10/2022

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08/10/2022

Happiness is still a place. Happiness is also people, education, wellbeing, family, friends, faith, trust, home, abundance and many more. Bhutan is beyond the idea of an imaginary, beautiful faraway utopia where life approaches perfection. In the highly volatile world, Bhutan has always paved its own pathway, guided by wisdom of its clever history and intelligent policies backed by science. Bhutan is a land whose strength comes out of its smallness, where innovation is not hindered by orthodoxy, where culture and people are ageless but progressive.

08/10/2022

There is something remarkable and mysterious about Bhutan, a place shrouded in magic and mysticism, difficult to describe in words. Visit Bhutan to take a step back and experience a culture and a people that are simultaneously changing and timeless.

08/10/2022

Formerly named Pungtang Dechen Photrang Dzong, ‘The Palace of Bliss or Great Happiness’, Punakha Dzong was built in 1637. The location of the majestic fortress is said to have been chosen by the founder of Bhutan, Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel. Punakha Dzong takes pride in being the second oldest and also the second largest dzong in Bhutan. The dzong is part of the Drukpa Lineage of the Kagyu school of Buddhism in Bhutan.

It’s magnificent structure showcases the world-class architecture of Bhutan and finest Bhutanese craftmanship. In fact, Bhutanese architecture has inspired building designs from all over the world including the architecture of an entire university campus, UTEP in Texas, United States. Punakha Dzong is truly one of the most beautiful dzongs in Bhutan and one of the most visited places by tourists.

Photo_ dated 23/9/22_ Dream Photography Bhutan _towards evening

08/10/2022

Fashion sometimes is wasted on the young, take at look at our seniors, like ouff! Don’t we all love a well dressed couple, their vibe is contagious.

They truly have the wisdom to not just soak in the blessed energy that is our tshechus, but to be one with it by immersing in it head to toe, inside out, come rain, sun or old age ….. ain’t nothing stopping them.

There is something very powerful about being part of something that is sometimes at least for me, beyond my understanding and control. It’s people coming together to collectively harvest an energy by not just being mere spectators but intimately being part of the whole. May our collective good karma peaking in this gathering today, ripple across our country and beyond.

On a selfish note I hope I find someone who holds me like grandma hugs grandpa. Like gurlll hold my hand and let’s walk into the sunset.

Goodnight Bhutan ⭐️