Today I woke up early and went to breakfast! The food was quite good and I first had buttered toast with chicken marsala omelettes and toast with some sort of berry flavored jelly. After eating I went back to my room to finish packing our luggage as this was our last day in Bhutan. After packing I went to the lobby and chatted with Kharma for a couple hours. Soon it came time … [Read more...] about Final Day
Today we had to wake up very early as we needed to be on the bus by 6 am. We weren't able to have a sit down breakfast, but the hotel restaurant had prepared a bag for each of us. The bag had two bananas, a mango juice box, a "butter" sandwich, and two hard-boiled eggs. I was quite hungry and ate most of the sandwich, three bananas (one from my roommate) and one of the eggs. … [Read more...] about 5th Day in Bhutan
I woke up earlier than usual and didn't catch too much sleep. I had a small breakfast and packed my bags as we were heading back to Paro! But before we did that, we stopped at the beautiful Punaka Dzong which was huge and had many detailed inlays. We started the drive back to Paro! At around lunch time we stopped at the pass with the mountain range to eat. The food wasn't too … [Read more...] about 4th Day in Bhutan
Today I woke up early like always and tried to make the best out of breakfast. I ate four pieces of toast, two with butter and two with jelly. Kharma arrived soon after and we loaded all the luggage onto the bus and began three hour journey to Punaka. The views were quite spectacular as the road was small and it seemed we would fall off the cliff. About the halfway point we … [Read more...] about 3rd Day in Bhutan
Today I woke up early but felt good as I had gone to sleep early the previous night. Breakfast wasn't exactly my favorite as it mainly consisted of Indian dishes that I hadn't really been used to... so I just ate two pieces of toast. After eating a meager breakfast, Kharma took us to the memorial stupa which was made by the 3rd kings mother as he had passed away at a young age. … [Read more...] about 2nd day Bhutan