Three
Week Pilgrimage Tour including Eastern Bhutan
Eastern Bhutan is remote and is fully catered with excellent
camping facilities. We will experience the unique Himalayan
landscape and local culture. Very few tourists are able to visit
this area.
Itinerary same as 2 week tour (above) till
Day 10.
Three week trip then proceeds as follows:
Day 11 (Oct 20) Begin journey to East. First
stop, Monger.
Day12 (Oct 21) Tashi Yangtshe, camp in Chorten
Cora, visit Handicraft Centre.
Day 13-19 (Oct 22-28) Rangjung Monastery,
Tashi Gang, Pema Gatshel to visit Gyetshen Tulku then return
to Mongar and Bumthang, Punakha and Thimphu.
Day 20 (Oct 29) Thimphu farewell dinner, Bhutanese
national dances, local wine
Day 21 (Oct 30) Afternoon drive to Paro.
Day 22 (Oct 31) Depart early morning to Kolkata,
India.
After many years of total isolation to protect
its local culture, Bhutan opened its borders in the 1970's
to a tightly controlled number of visitors. Due to its protected
isolation, Bhutan is known as the hidden kingdom and now provides
a unique and wonderful insight into a very ancient culture.
Strong Buddhist values guide daily life - even their economy
measures Gross National Happiness!
You will enjoy the spectacular Himalayan landscape,
see local activities like archery and horseriding, visit Buddhist
festivals with lama dancing, taste local food and drink and
be entertained by traditional dancers and musicians.
Yet most important of all, on this very special
pilgrimage with Khandro-la, you will be taken on a spiritual
journey - meeting and travelling with Buddhist teachers and
practitioners, learning the Buddhist history and directly
experiencing places of power and practice that are centuries
old. Travelling with Khandro-la will give you a "visa"
to places in this land and in your heart rarely known to Western
visitors.
Khandro Thrinlay Chodon comes from a family
of great yogis and meditators of the Drukpa Kargyud lineage
of Tibetan Buddhism. She has devoted her entire life to practice
and integrating these teachings into daily life.
She is in a unique position to show us through
this hidden land of the Dragon. Drukpa Kargyud is the dragon
lineage and she is the widow of the exiled leader of Bhutan.
With such close ties to Bhutan and a deep understanding and
practice of Buddhism there is no better spiritual guide for
your journey.
Truly a once in a lifetime opportunity.
Tour includes twin share accommodation in
top hotels, all transport and food in Bhutan. Also includes
donations to monasteries visited and a donation to the Khachodling
Project.
Group members may if they wish, gather and
meet in Calcutta, India and then proceed together to Paro,
Bhutan.
Cost quoted above is ex Paro. All international flights to
and from Paro are an individual responsibility.
For more information:
Email: khachodling@yahoo.com
Jane Miknius, Bhutan PilgrimageTour Co-ordinator,
9 Tennyson Rd Ryde NSW 2112 Australia
Cell +61-(0)402-368172 Home +61-2-98162246
Please register your interest as soon as possible.
Deposits due by 1st August 2006
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