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Bhutan

Bhutan in 2001 installed their first televisions - probably the only place on earth where the Governments first priority is something called "Gross National Happiness"

National Museum Exhibition Hall - Photo Exhibition

On the wall inside the entrance to Rimpung Dzong Buddhist Monastery and Fortress

Inside the Monastery are 14 Shrines and Chapels. It also houses the district Monestic Body and Government Administrative Offices of Paro district.

Young Buddhist Monks

Courtyard

Our local guide in Bhutan Tashi Dorji. He is wearing typical clothes for every man in the country.

East meets West - Monks pausing to check their cell phones

Tashi is explaining the prayer wheels - you walk along them and turn each of them and your prayers hopefully will be answered

Looking up from a courtyard at the ornateness of the buildings

Our group overlooking the valley from the Monastery

View of the valley with Prayer flags in the distance blowing in the wind

Local to the left speaking with two Monks

Two young Monks, young boys, in training brushing their teeth from the water faucet

Inner courtyard. - notice the intricate wood work of the walls of the Monastery

Entrance into and out of the courtyard of the Monastery

The flags placed on hill slopes are normally a profusion of colorful religious flags fixed by the Buddhist people as a mark of veneration. Flags are made up in 5 colors representing natural colors - blue (sky) white (clouds) red (fire) green (water) and yellow (earth).

Steps to the upper level leading to the National Museum at the top of the hill

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