Few corners are on this planet in which, as happens in Bhutan, still can also be parked in dry life to the race that imposes the western world. Known for its inhabitants as the land of the dragon of thunder and by many of his fans as the last Shangri-Lá, this kingdom of the Himalayas the size of Aragon, encased giants Chinese and Indian, has remained closed to cal and singing to the rest of the world until three decades ago. In some way still is; more by desire of their rulers that by the shield natural that gives you a mountainous terrain dotted.
Only the national airline connects the airport of unemployment, the only of the country, with a handful of Asian cities; the traveler who want left mesmerizing by its landscapes and its spiritual way of life attached to the tradition and the Buddhist philosophy would have required to disburse beforehand a rate of between 165 and 240 dollars a day with, that yes, the basic accommodations, meals and transport including, apart from a guide to help them to decrypt the keys to this country in full transition from middle ages to the internet society and the conquest of space. The requirement is one of the many imposed by the government to scare away the mass tourism and preserve the identity of its inhabitants, which by law are obliged to wear the costume national.
Bhutan, which until the mid-1960S did not have electricity, roads, cars, has also been the last country on the planet in allowing the television, and only four years ago King Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicate in his eldest son to lay the foundations of a transition to modernity, becoming the democracy more young of the world to hold, at the end of last year, its first elections.
Bhutan is a country humble and agriculture, feudal in many aspects, but to change to be attic of temples centenarians alight at the top of phenomenal cliffs of villages intact among the forests that cover three quarters of its geography, valleys and rice paddies and a nature exciting on which fly the flags of prayer. Not to mention the curious Index of happiness that gross, to complement the classic meter on the per capita income, coined the previous king.
Similar parentheses in the world noise gives rise to undertake unusual treks for sighting birds, orchids or medicinal plants or to dare with walks harsher and more altitude in the scarce tourists and the infrastructure, but also to withdraw to meditate, without giving the less comfort, installed in one of the luxury hotels of handful that treasured the country, where delivered a few days or weeks of yoga and holistic therapies with the need to rebalance body and mind, in an environment soaked of spirituality.
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