Travel Options for Your Adventure of a Lifetime
Heritage Festivals and Traditional Farmhouses
Begin and end your tale in historic accommodations with access to the Internet, handicraft stores, and international news. You will stay in a traditional rural country home with all the modern amenities—living close to nature, planting a rice paddy, making cheese, or brewing ara, the popular local rice wine.
We'll witness centuries-old seasonal festivals that have retained their cultural purity, walk in pristine woodlands that are a paradise for botanists and birdwatchers, and unwind at night with a traditional hot stone or mineral bath under an impossibly starry sky.
Learn how locals appease deities to ensure environmental balance and come to a deeper understanding of how to achieve internal balance in your own daily life. Sites you visit on your tours.
Kingdom Culture explores the diversity of Bhutanese culture. We'll learn about Zorig Chusum—the 13 arts and crafts, traditional medicine, tantric Buddhist philosophy, and practice and enter seldom-visited monasteries.
When we come across traditional weavers working in a village, we may want to slow down and take time to watch them work, talk about the role of textiles in Bhutanese society, or purchase handmade items directly from the artists. Or, if you have a special interest in Buddhism, Bhutan Dragon Tales can arrange a talk with a local expert or lama.
We'll observe firsthand how the small nation of Bhutan is balancing its traditional and cultural heritage with the demands of modernization and learn why Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross National Product.
Only Bhutan Dragon Tales offers guests the opportunity to plant trees to offset carbon emissions produced in your air travel to reach Bhutan. About section. Click to edit and tell your visitors about how you provide a high-quality service.
Ready for a 'digital cleanse'? Do you want to acquire the ability to 'reset'? Yoga and meditation are practices whereby the person synchronizes the mind (Yo) and body (Ga). Simply put, it harmonizes the mind; and, transforms the way we love, love, parent, and lead.
Just as there are different approaches to Buddhism in the world from Zen in Japan to Tantric practices in Bhutan, so too are interpretations of meditation. During this retreat, you will experience a method that both beginning and advanced students can easily access, yet will find very powerful.
Part of the power comes from the place where we will practice. Baelandra is a spot in the Wangdue Phodrang district (2 hours from the capital, Thimphu) that is recognized as having certain energy that contains a 'baeyul' (a door to a hidden, paradise-like valley). It is believed that those who can inhabit a baeyul use only their sensory organs to satisfy hunger and thirst.
On our visit to this sacred place, we will practice yoga (optional) and the local meditation technique so that you may acquire your own capacity to access and experience the paradises that exist in our minds.
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