Travel style
Festivals
Losar, tshechus, Dashain and Pang Lhabsol
The festival calendar here is lunar and Tibetan, so dates move by several weeks from one year to the next. Bhutan publishes its tshechu dates in advance; monastery festivals in Sikkim are announced closer to the time.
Festivals fill rooms. For Paro and Thimphu tshechus, the October Puja holidays and the Dashain fortnight, book stays two to three months ahead. Check current status before you travel.
Journeys
Routes in this style
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per person, twin₹47,000
per person, twin₹36,500
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Places
Where it fits best
Tagore's hill retreat among the cinchona plantations
The road junction above Kalimpong, with Damsang Fort in the forest
Sikkim's hilltop capital, walkable, clean and good value
The Karmapa's seat in exile, on a quiet hill across from Gangtok
One of Sikkim's six great monasteries, 38 km from Gangtok
The Rangeet river town where South and West Sikkim change jeeps
Sky-high Namchi, two giant statues and the Lepcha flood hill
A 130-foot Buddha, Pang Lhabsol and a ridge-top jeep junction
A hilltop monastery between two rivers, home of the Bumchu vase
Four high valleys and the oldest temples in Bhutan
Hot springs and a frontier dzong at the top of the Mo Chhu
A quiet valley over Chele La, opened to tourists only in 2002
Tiger's Nest, the airport valley and Bhutan's red rice fields
The old capital where two rivers meet below a great dzong
A capital without traffic lights, under a giant golden Buddha
The dzong at the centre of Bhutan, where kings first rule
A rebuilt 17th-century dzong on the ridge above two rivers
Build your own route Tell us your dates, who is coming and what you want to see. We draw the route and price it three ways. Start Working to a budget? Give us a number per person. We will tell you honestly what it buys, and where to save. Start Ask someone who has been A first plan and price within one working day. No payment to start. StartStays
Rooms that suit it
