Phuntsholing

This small modern town in the south is the gateway of Bhutan for overland travellers. Phuntsholing is fascinating mixture of Bhutanese and Indian, a lively centre for the mingling people, languages, customes, and goods. On the top of a low hill at nearby Kharbandi, a small Gompa situated in a garden of tropical plants and flowers, overlooks the towns and surrounding plains. From Puntsholing, the road winds north over the southern foothills, through lush forested valleys and around the rugged north-south ridges of the inner Himalaya to the central valleys of Thimpu and Paro.

The capital city of Thimphu lies in the broad fertile valley of the Wang Chu river at an altitude of 7,500 ft. Once a rustic village, Thimphu today has a population of over 34,000 people. At the entrance of the valley, seven kilometers from the capital, on a breezy hilltop rises Simtokha Dzong, Bhutan's most ancient fortress. A striking example of the preservation of ancient skill in Bhutan is Tashichho Dzong
("Fortress of the glorious religion"), standing in the valley along side the river bank, surrounded by groves of fresh young willows and poplars and an ornamental garden of roses.

     Thimphu

Paro

Amid a patch work of rice paddies, wheat fields, trout- filled streams and scattered settlements lies the lush green, historic Paro valley where the Paro Chhu flows from the water shed in the Jhumolhari range. On a hill side stands Paro Dzong at an altitide of just over 7,000 ft. The Paro Dzong, name Rinpung Dzong means 'Fortress of the heap of jewels' has a long and a fascinating history. An enormous guru Thanghka, one of the most priced possessions of the monastery is displayed from the wall of the temple court. 

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