Bhutan Cultural Tour

This is Bhutan at a gentle, immersive pace: the fortress-monasteries and temples of the west, then east over the Dochula pass — 108 chortens above a sea of cloud — into the warm rice-terraced Punakha valley.

You'll cross Bhutan's most beautiful dzong at the confluence of two rivers, walk to the fertility temple of Chimi Lhakhang through paddy fields, and continue to the glacial bowl of Phobjikha, winter home of the rare black-necked cranes.

Throughout, you stay in characterful boutique hotels and travel with a guide steeped in Bhutanese Buddhism, history and the quiet philosophy of Gross National Happiness.