by Jonathan Look | Apr 17, 2014 | Adventure, Bhutan, Travel
One of the highlights of Bhutan’s gathering of nomadic highlanders known as the Nomad Festival is the strongman competition where herders from the Himalayan frontiers and villagers near Bhutan’s Bumthang district compete (and drink Arra) to see who is the strongest....
by Jonathan Look | Mar 31, 2014 | Adventure, Bhutan, People, Photography, Travel
Why Bhutan in February? One of our reasons for wanting to go to on our Bhutan trip in February was to see the annual Nomad Festival. Every year nomadic herders from Bhutan’s Himalayan frontiers and nearby gewogs (villages) gather in central Bhutan’s Bumthang...
by Jonathan Look | Mar 6, 2014 | Adventure, Bhutan, Travel
Bhutan has always been one of the places I have most wanted to visit. I remember as a kid thumbing through old copies of National Geographic and wondering what a place known as the ‘Land of the Thunder Dragon’ must be like. As an adolescent, I remember reading...