Family Vacations & Adventure Travel
Festivals and Textiles
Myths and Mountains offers this colorful insiders journey focused on the art of Bhutanese textiles, and highlighted by the Punakha Dromche Festival in the spring and the Wangdi Tsechu Festival in the fall where you’ll see fine clothes and costumes come to life. Learn how fabrics are woven, dyed, and loomed, and visit ancestral homes of medieval nobility to see their textile collections which have been passed down through generations. In Thimphu, you’ll visit the textile museum, National Library, the Tashicho Dzong, handcraft schools, and the home of a renowned weaver.
- ACTIVITY: Walking & Hiking Vacations, Eco-Travel & Cultural Exploration
- WHERE: Bhutan, ASIA
- AVAILABILITY: February, October
- FROM: $2,825.00 pp based on 3-10 people
- DURATION: 9 days
- AUDIENCE: Family Vacations & Adventure Travel, For Groups: Adventure Travel With the Experts!
Across Bhutan
A trip for those who want to understand the diversity of Bhutan! Where most people go half way across the country to Bumthang, you will travel from Paro in the west, all the way across the country to Mongar in the east, and into India at Guwahati. Along the way you can stay with families or in small hotels, visit monasteries and holy sites, sip tea with monks, explore markets, and meet with the artisans and local people. In the fall, you have the opportunity to see both the Mongar and Trashigang Tsechus – quite a special way to get inside the culture!
- ACTIVITY: Eco-Travel & Cultural Exploration, Wildlife, Safaris and Photography Vacations
- WHERE: Bhutan, ASIA
- AVAILABILITY: March
- FROM: $3,895.00
- DURATION: 12 days
- AUDIENCE: Family Vacations & Adventure Travel, For Groups: Adventure Travel With the Experts!
Family and Festivals
Experience Bhutan and its people by staying in family homes or small hotels and sampling their regional foods. This trip is a blend of festivals - Wangdi Tsechu in the fall and Ura Yakchoe in the spring. Perhaps you can learn to make butter tea, Hontay, vegetable dumplings; Mengay, a Bhutanese Pizza, made from mashed rice, eggs, spring onions, mushrooms and other ingredients. Traveling toward Bumthang, you will talk with monks and sip tea with them, meet farmers, explore giant dzongs and small gompas and truly get a special “taste” of the culture of this country!
- ACTIVITY: Eco-Travel & Cultural Exploration
- WHERE: Bhutan, ASIA
- AVAILABILITY: April, September
- FROM: $3,395.00 pp based on 3-10 people
- DURATION: 11 days
- AUDIENCE: Family Vacations & Adventure Travel, For Groups: Adventure Travel With the Experts!
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