Our most recent photography trip was to the Kingdom of Bhutan, The Land of the Thunder Dragon. Bhutan is located between India and China, and lies close to Nepal and Tibet. Some say that Bhutan is the last shangri la on earth, and it is also the only remaining Buddhist Himalayan kingdom. Even after having opened its doors to the outside world in 1974, not much is known of this kingdom shrouded in timeless mystery.

For our trip, we had to fly into Bhutan from Bangkok, one of the few cities which had connecting flights on Bhutan’s national carrier, Drukair.

Our general itinerary was as follows:

Day 1: Bangkok to Paro, Thimphu

Day 2: Thimphu, Wangdue

Day 3: Gangtey, Phobjikha

Day 4: Travelling to Bumthang

Day 5: Bumthang

Day 6: Trongsa

Day 7: Punakha, Thimphu

Day 8: Thimphu, Paro

Day 9: Paro, Tatsang Lhakhang (Tiger’s Nest)

Day 10: Paro to Bangkok

As we were concerned that our flight from Singapore-Bangkok and Paro-Bangkok might be delayed, causing us to miss the connecting flight, we chose to to fly to Bangkok earlier, and also extended our stay in Bangkok at the end.