YOUR NEXT BIG ADVENTURE
The Land of the Thunder Dragon does things differently. In the last of the Himalayan kingdoms, television and the internet have been permitted since 1999, but smoking, plastic bags and high-altitude mountaineering are banned. In fact, the world’s tallest unclimbed summit lies in Bhutan. Visitors can still trek at giddy heights, however, to reach crag-perched goembas (Buddhist monasteries), where prayer-flags flutter in the wind.