Thursday, July 14, 2011

A Ride to Sikkim and Bhutan 2200KM - Part 13

Today  we set off to explore Butan. Paro to be precise we have only half a day for sight seeing as tomorrow we have to reach Guwahati to board our flights the day after. All the days wasted in permits and illness have brought us down to only half a day. Anyways we head forward and make most of it. Below can be seen Tigers Nest the most famous monastery in Bhutan. Only Raman had the strength to go to the top me and Vishal pix-elated it from the bottom and headed to check out other attractions. Raman joined us later.



Approaching the Tigers Nest Monastery

First view of Drukgyel Dzong at the upper end of the valley, built to protect against invading Tibetans, but in ruins since a fire in the 1950s.






We basically had the whole fort for us we spent time clicking lots of pics.




























Rinpung Dzong, also known as Paro Dzong, the massive fortress/monastery which is also the administrative center of the dzonkhag.
View from near Rinpung Dzong.



Bhutan National Museum


The Museum is the final pic clicked from my DSLR though its pretty big from inside only this much portion of its is visible from the road side.
After this we started our return journey to the hotel our luggage was waiting at the reception. We had some food and set towards Jaigaon, we reached at night stayed in the same hotel as while coming. In the morning we set off for Guwahati and the next morning loaded our bikes on a train and we moved to the airport for our flight to Mumbai.

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