Bhutan Photo Galleries

Dried yak cheese and apples for sale

Dried yak cheese

Starting our hike through the fog

Prayer flags and snow

Hike signpost

The Lungchutse Temple

Lungchutse Temple

Yak on our hike

Lots of mossy trees

So many prayer flags lining the trail

More prayer flags

The most flags!

Momo

Stupas on the pass

Stupa in the fog

There are 108 stupas

Stupas on the pass

Authentic Bhutanese lunch - pig skin, dried fish, carrots

Authentic Bhutanese lunch - veggies, rice

Yak herders on the pass

Valley view

Our hotel in Phobjikha Valley

Our hotel in Phobjikha Valley

Our hotel in Phobjikha Valley

Local Phobjikha Valley homes

Local Phobjikha Valley homes

Prayer flags

Black necked crane at the visitor center

Yak on the pass

Yak on the pass

Yak herder and our guide

Punakha valley view

On the way to the Temple of the Divine Madman

On the way to the Temple of the Divine Madman

Colorful flag

Lunch

Sangchhen Dorji Louendrup Nunnery

Sangchhen Dorji Louendrup Nunnery

Nepalese style stupa at the nunnery

Large prayer wheel at the nunnery

Views from the nunnery

Our hotel in Puakha

Footbridge over the river to our hike

Prayer wheel on hike to Khamsum Yulley Namgyel Choten

Farming in the valley

Cows on our hike

Valley views

Farming in the valley

Entrance to the choten

Khamsum Yulley Namgyel Choten

Khamsum Yulley Namgyel Choten

Punakha Dzong from the bridge

Punakha Dzong

Tons of fish near the bridge

Bees nests on Punakha Dzong

Punakha Dzong courtyard

Punakha Dzong

Punakha Dzong

Monks finishing prayer

Punakha Dzong courtyard

Punakha Dzong

Intricate details

Punakha Dzong from the river

Us at the Punakha Dzong

Trying the homemade barley wine at lunch

Barley wine with filtered straw

Trying the homemade barley wine at lunch

Momos at lunch

Monks on the footbridge over river

Local house near the river

Local man in the window

Friendly school kids

Friendly school kids

Raft next to the river

On our raft on Po Chu river

Jumping off the rock cliff

Footbridge from the river