Bhutan's Royal Highland Festival Returns to Laya with Yak Herders, Horse Races and a Himalayan First
Bhutan's Royal Highland Festival in Laya, Gasa returned 23-24 October 2026 with yak herders, horse racing and...
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Everything we have found about travelling in Bhutan, gathered from 5 publications and rewritten as short briefs with the original reporting credited. Last story added 1 day ago.
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Bhutan's tourist numbers are booming — so why are local hotels and operators struggling?
Bhutan's tourist arrivals rose 28.6% in September 2026, yet local hotels and tour operators say revenue is fal...
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Bhutan swaps the blue book for a digital vehicle RC — what road-trippers need to know
Bhutan's BCTA has replaced the traditional blue book with a one-page digital RC. Here's what it means for driv...
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Fuel Prices Are Climbing in Bhutan — What Rising Diesel and Petrol Imports Mean for Travellers
Bhutan's petrol imports rose 38.74% and diesel 27.54% in 2025. What rising fuel prices and patchy EV charging...
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A Tiny Bhutanese Village Becomes a Test Bed for Blockchain
Project Digital Village brings blockchain, digital wallets and a community token to 21 households in remote Ru...
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Bhutan bets on value over volume: what the 'high-value economy' shift means for travellers
Bhutan plans to extend its High Value, Low Volume tourism philosophy to the whole economy — from premium agrif...
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Thimphu's Former Sewage Ponds Are Becoming a 21-Acre Riverside Park
Thimphu's former sewerage ponds are being turned into a 21-acre ecological park with gardens, wetlands and riv...
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How Bhutan's first female festival Gup is rewriting a warrior tradition
Sonam Zangmo, Bhutan's first female Gup among the eight gewogs running the Punakha Dromchoe, is challenging a...
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Dokhachoe Gompa: Bhutan's Cliff-Edge Monastery of the One-Eyed Goddess
Dokhachoe Gompa in Chhukha, Bhutan: legends of a speaking Zhabdrung statue, wish-granting Ekajati, and a medit...
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Bhutan recovers dozens of sacred daggers stolen from monasteries — and two Singaporean tourists handed theirs back
Bhutanese police link 18 suspects to 35 temple thefts and recover 45 stolen phurpas, with two Singaporean tour...
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Bhutan's performance pay for civil servants stalls as government cites funding gaps
Bhutan's performance-based incentives for its 30,000 civil servants remain unimplemented due to resource const...
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Bhutan's Druk Air pulls the plug on planned direct flights to Israel
Druk Air confirms planned February–March 2027 direct charter flights to Israel will not go ahead after a risk...
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Bhutan Sends Its Fifth UN Peacekeeping Contingent to the Central African Republic
Bhutan's King granted an audience to the 180-member fifth UN peacekeeping contingent deploying to the Central...
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