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Vakantie in Bhutan - Reisinformatie Bhutan.
De lokale naam van het land : Druk Yul [ het land van de draak ]
Bhutan ligt in Azië, hoog in de oostelijke Himalaya. Het land wordt ingeklemd door China [ Tibet ] en India. Het zuidelijke gedeelte van Bhutan ligt op het Indische subcontinent.
Door de eeuwen heen is het land door vele heiligen, mystici en
pelgrims bezocht die niet alleen voor hun persoonlijke ontwikkeling kwamen, maar het land en volk tegelijkertijd een spirituele en culturele erfenis nalieten die nog steeds in het dagelijkse leven van
Bhutan is terug te vinden.
Districten in Bhutan [ dzongkhag ] : Bumthang, Chhukha, Chirang, Daga, Geylegphug, Ha, Lhuntshi, Mongar, Paro, Pemagatsel, Punakha, Samchi, Samdrup Jongkhar, Shemgang,
Tashigang, Thimphu, Tongsa, Wangdi Phodrang
Hoofdstad van Bhutan : Thimphu
Phuntsholing [ toegang tot en vertrek over land ]
hotels/hostels, reisbureaus / reisorganisaties, reisgidsen / boeken, vervoer / reizen naar buthan, visum Buthan
links
Recente reisadviezen - zie pagina reisadvies
Hotels in Bhutan
Hotels - allemaal eigendom van Bhutan Tourism Corporation Ltd
Each property is designed in the traditional Bhutanese style, yet
each retains its own character and is set in unusual and dramatic locations: from the Hotel Olathang in the foothills of the Paro Valley surrounded by blue pine forests to the Hotel Motithang (Bhutan's
first hotel) overlooking Thimphu's skyline to Trongsa's Sherubling Lodge, with its alpine feel and remarkable vista over the golden roofs of Trongsa Dzong
Reisbureaus / Reisorganisaties
VNC Asia Travel - Bhutan
Het meest veelzijdige aanbod van reizen naar Azië. Groepsreizen, luxe verzorgd en reizen met ruimte voor
eigen initiatief. Speciale groepsreizen en incentives. Individuele Reizen op maat. Het team van VNC Asia
Travel heeft een schat aan kennis en ervaring waarmee zij voor u de mooiste reizen naar Azië samenstellen.
Mata India Tours [anvr/sgr], tel.: 0183 - 690 830
Passaat [ sgr ], tel.: 0252 - 422 941
Himalayan Kingdoms [ uit GB ]
A.o. Bird Watching in Bhutan, Cultural Tour of Bhutan, Family Trek, Sacred Mountains - Secret Valleys, Tashi
Tenzing's Darjeeling & Bhutan Panorama, The Chorten Path, The Complete Lunana Snowman trek, The Hidden Kingdom Trek
Voyages Jules Verne - bijzondere reizen voor de betrokken reiziger
Far Fung Places [ ] - reizen in kleine groepjes
Association of Bhutanese Tour Operators [ ABTO ]
Vereniging van Bhutanese touroperators
Tour Operators in Bhutan - officiële lijst van het toeristenbureau Bhutan
Reisgidsen Bhutan / Reisliteratuur
Reisboekwinkel De Zwerver Reisgidsen & landkaarten online bestellen!
Reisboekhandel De Zwerver heeft een ruim assortiment reisgidsen, land- en wegenkaarten, wandel- en fietskaarten, digitale kaarten, wereldbollen, reis dvd's en wandkaarten.
 Lonely Planet: Bhutan - Stan Armington
Paperback | 320 Pagina's | Lonely Planet Publications | UK Edition | 2002
Bhutan - Footprint Handbook - Gyurme Dorje
Paperback 352 pages (October 29, 2004); Publisher: Footprint Handbooks; Language: English; ISBN: 190347132X
Bhutan - Lonely Planet Country Guide - Stan Armington
Paperback 320 pages (June 25, 2002); Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications; Language: English; ISBN: 1864501456
Dreams of the Peaceful Dragon: Journey into Bhutan
Door Katie Hickman, Tom Owen Edmonds (Photographer)
Synopsis : Bhutan is a remote kingdom in the Himalayas, isolated from the outside world for three centuries.
The western part has been opened to limited tourism, but the eastern part remains closed. Katie Hickman is
one of only a handful of foreigners ever to penetrate these eastern lands. Her trip to Bhutan with photographer Tom Owen Edmunds took a year to set up. They journeyed from the capital Thimphu in the west
to the easternmost borderlands and the remote mountain-top retreat of the barbarous Bragpa people. They
lived as Bhutanese, and met merchants, abbots, wandering priests, lamas, hermits, a reincarnation of the
Buddha and a sorceress. Katie Hickman's account contains all the unexpected and humorous aspects of travel, but, above all, it is about the people of Bhutan.
Paperback 192 pages (February 7, 2002); Publisher: Phoenix mass market p/bk
In Search of Shangri-La: The Extraordinary True Story of the Quest for the Lost Horizon
Op zoek naar Shangri-La door Michael McRae
Adventure, travel, history and myth combine in this story of the search for Shangri-La, the legendary paradise
, including failed attempts by the British Royal Geographical Society in 1922 and the successful discovery of the hiddenfalls.
Paperback 240 pages (March 25, 2004); Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; Language: English; ISBN: 0140290427
Vervoer / Hoe kom ik in Buthan
All tourists (group or individual) must travel on a pre-planned, prepaid, guided package tour program. Independent travel is not permitted.
Luchthaven van Buthan - Paro Airport [ PBH/VQPR ] - zie Druk Air
The nearest Indian airport is in Bagdogra, which can be reached by plane from Calcutta and Delhi. The road
from Bagdogra connects to Phuentsholing, a border town in Bhutan. It is a 3-4 hour drive from the airport. It takes approximately 6 hours from Phuentsholing to Thimphu or Paro.
Druk Air - de enige luchtvaartmaatschappij die van / naar Bhutan vliegt.
Het laatste stuk van je vliegreis naar Bhutan begint dus in Calcutta, Dhaka of Kathmandu
Er zijn geen lokale luchtvaartmaatschappijen of treinverbindingen.
- goedkope vliegtickets naar India
Vliegtickets, lijndiensten, charters en combinatietickets.
Losse vliegtickets - diverse Nederlandse aanbieders
Belangrijkste wegen over land zijn goed onderhouden.
Kaart van Bhutan bij Travelmap
Visum
V&V Visumdienst -
Visum aanvragen Bhutan
Links / Verwijzingen 
Reisverzekering - online afsluiten mogelijk - diverse aanbieders
Department of Tourism, Bhutan - VVV Bhutan
The Kingdom of Buthan [ Koninkrijk Bhutan ]
Op Buddhisme gebaseerde reisprogramma's, Birding in Buthan, The weaver's trail, Trekking Itineraries
Thimphu - hoofdstad van Bhutan, liggend aan Wang Chu [ Chu Rivier ]
Western part of the country, in a high valley of the Himalayas, former Winter Capital. Market center for agricultural goods produced in the surrounding valley.
Phuntsholing - toegang over land [ en vertrek]
Zuidelijke grensstad Phuentsholing bij West-Bengalen, Inida
Bumthang
Gasa Dzong
Mongar
Paro
Punakha - Punakha Dzong, ooit de zomerhoofdstad van Bhutan
Samdrup Jongkhar
Trashigang
Trongsa
Wangduephodrang
Bhumthang Vallei - door de Bhutanezen als zeer heilige plaats beschouwd
Dochula Pas [ 3100m ]
Mebartsho, a holy site and pilgrimage place also known as the Burning Lake
Vallei van Punakha / Punakha Vallei
Yotola Pas [ 3440m ]
Black Necked Crane [ Wangduephodrang ]
Dechenchoeling Paleis in Thimphu - het officiële verblijf van de koning
Bhutan
Info over natuurlijke hulpbronnen, de mensen, de overheid, en politieke organisaties
Bhutan, koninkrijk in de Himalaya
Kuensel - nationale krant van Bhutan
Published weekly in three languages; Dzongkha, English and Nepali. Kuensel wants to keep its Bhutanese and international readers up to date on the politics and current events in the kingdom.
PBS - Living Edens
Bhutan, or the Land of the Thunder Dragon, is the only remaining Buddhist Himalayan kingdom. Shrouded in
timeless mystery, Bhutan is one of the few surviving regions whose secrets have passed undisturbed
through the millennia. Since 95 percent of the Bhutanese people remain subsistence farmers or pastoralists,
they live in harmony with an extraordinary diversity of animals, including the wild buffalo, red panda, Himalayan black bear, takin and blue sheep.
Cuisine - Buthanese keuken - recepten
Spicy chilies (ema) mixed with a cheese sauce called emadatse is the national dish of Bhutan. Chilies are
treated as a vegetable rather than a seasoning in the Bhutanese diet. A wide variety of fresh vegetables are a daily staple of the Bhutanese diet.
Bhutanese Food [ Bhutanees eten ]
...Almost all Bhutanese meals consist of a generous helping of rice and one or more "curry" dishes. I quote
curry because of a lack of a better English word. In Dzongkha those dishes are called tshoem. The rice is
boiled (or steamed) and can be white polished rice (called ja chum)or a unique variety of Bhutanese rice
which is pink in color (called eue chum). The pink or red sice is heavier and has a slightly nutty flavour.
Outside Bhutan it can be found in some specialty food stores in some larger US cities like LA, SF and NY...
Geschiedenis van Bhutan
Onafhankelijk van India op 8 augustus 1949.
Bhutan is gevestigd als boeddhistische theocratie in de 17e eeuw. Het gebied kwam onder Britse invloed vanuit India in de 19e eeuw.
Mystery surrounds Bhutan's distant past, as priceless irretrievable documents were lost in fires and earthquakes. In the 8th century CE, Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambhava or second Buddha) made his legendary
trip from Eastern Bhutan to Western Bhutan on the back of a flying tigress to subdue the evil spirits who
hindered Buddhism. After defeating them, he blessed them as guardians of the doctrine. thus introducing
Tantric Buddhism to Bhutan. Taktshang or Tigers Nest in the Paro Valley is where he landed and today it remains one of most sacred places in Bhutan.
It is believed that the name Bhutan is derived from the Sanskrit 'Bhotant', meaning 'the end of Tibet', or from
'Bhu-uttan', meaning 'high land'. Historically the Bhutanese have refered to their country as Druk Yul, 'land of the thunder dragon'. Bhutanese refer to themselves as Drukpa people.
Rediscovering Bhutan - M.N. Gulati
This book is the story of ancient times in Bhutan, their history religion, culture, beliefs, politics. It is a complete source of informations and a reference tool on Bhutan.
Hardcover 413 pages (August 30, 2003); Publisher: Manas Publications; Language: English; ISBN: 8170491568
A political & religious history of Bhutan, 1651-1906 - C. T Dorji
Paperback 241 pages (1995); Publisher: Sangay Xam in collaboration with Prominent Publishers, Delhi, India; ISBN: 8186239030
Muziek, Cultuur & Entertainment
Bhutan is an ancient kingdom secluded high in the eastern Himalayas. It has been visited by a great many
saints, mystics, scholars and pilgrims over the centuries who not only came for their personal elucidation, but
blessed the land and its people with an invaluable spiritual and cultural legacy that has shaped every facet of Bhutanese lives.
Bhutan's artistic tradition has its roots in Buddhism with almost all representation in the arts running along the
prevailing theme of struggle between good and evil. A rare blend of Tibetan, Indian and Chinese traditional styles in characteristic Bhutanese setting, Bhutanese art is mostly symbolic.
De bhutaanse muziek kent traditionele genres als rigsar, zhungdra en boedra.
Bhutan (Cultures of the World) - Robert Cooper
Library Binding 128 pages (March 2001); Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Corporation; Language: English; ISBN: 0761411917
Tibetan Buddhist Rites from the Monasteries of Bhutan
Audio CD (March 21, 2005); Number of Discs: 2
Archery - Bhutan's national sport
With traditional competitions being held regularly in most villages.
Trongsa Tsechu Festival [ Trongsa ]
Webportaal / Zoekmachine
Kuensel - wekelijks nieuwsblad [engelstalig]
Bhutan - info m.b.t. de natuurlijke hulpbronnen, bevolking, overheid en politieke organisaties
Bhutan, koninkrijk in de Himalaya
Thimphu.com
Startkabel Bhutan
CIA World Factbook: Bhutan - geografie, bevolkingsopbouw, overheid, ekonomie enz.
InfoPlease: Bhutan
U.S. Library of Congress Country Study - Bhutan - bevolking, geschiedenis enz.
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