Bhutan Tour Packages:Trekking Remote Merak and Sakteng
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Highlights
- Visit Gomkora and Ranjung
- Explore the famous temple Kurjey Lhakhang
- Visit Paro
- Explore Sakteng
- Experience the nature in Jakar Valley
- Visit the Traditional Paper Making Factory
- Explore Punakha
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- Accommodations as listed, including all service charges and taxes
- All ground transfers
- All private excursions with expert Englishfspeaking guides
- Camping equipment, tents, cooking and eating utensils
- Camping staff and horses as needed
- All meals as indicated with Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
- Bhutan visa
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Itinerary
Arrive Delhi. Overnight in or near the airport (not included).
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel TLC
Early this morning, you transfer to the airport to catch a flight to Guwahati. On arrival, you will be met by our Bhutanese friends and can go have some breakfast. After breakfast, you head out ...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel KC or Linkhar Meals
After breakfast, you head up the hill towards Trashigang. Along the way, you can make several stops in Kanglung. The first is at Zangdopelri Lhakhang. Built in the early 1970’s...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel KC or Linkhar
Today, you can explore the area. Visiting GomKora, one of the oldest monasteries in Bhutan, with a wonderful history. In the spring, you will attend the Gomphukora Festival, drawing p...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Camping – Shatimi or Damnongchu
An hour’s drive through Rangjung will take you to Chaling village. It’s a farm road and drive can be little bumpy. When you arrive at Chaling, you will meet your horsemen a...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Camping – Merak
You start from Shatimi or Damnongchu. If you made it to Damnongchu, the trekking time is little over 5 hours, although it is about 7 from Shatimi. Enjoy the trek through yak meadows with l...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Camping – Merak
Rather than rushing on, you can spend the day with the villagers in Merak, getting to know their lifestyle, visiting the school and homes, watching (or helping) with daily chores, and perhaps even learning a bit of cooking.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Camping – Miksa Teng
The trek from Merak to Miksa Teng is of medium difficulty passing through the beautiful Nagchungla pass at 14,500 ft. As you climb through primarily shrubs of the rhododendron species...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Camping – Sakteng
The trek to Sakteng from Miksa Teng is easy, as you make your way through beautiful woods with a short climb, before you reach camp. Sakteng is bigger than Merak. The center of the villa...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Camping – Jyonkhar Teng
Farewell to the beautiful nomads of Sakteng and the return to Trashigang begin. Today’s trail is much easier than what you had so far mostly downhill and walking on well maintained...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel KC or Linkhar
Today’s walk takes 5 hours to Phongmey. From there, you continue on a bit farther to Radhi.
Radhi, popularly known as the ‘Rice Bowl” of the east is famous for raw silk textiles...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Jakar Village Lodge
Leaving Trashigang, you have a long drive today back to Bumthang over the highest motorable pass in Bhutan – Thrumsing-La. Along the way, you can stop briefly in Mongar, perhaps for lu...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Jakar Village Lodge
In the spring, you can simply tour the Jakar Valley, beginning at the very old Jakar Monastery. In the fall you will enjoy festival day in Jakar, and you can spend as much time as you ...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: YTS or Dhensa
You have one more difficult drive, today to Punakha. You will leave Bumthang early and drive first through the Chummi Valley, once famous for its yatra weavings. Continuing on, you come to T...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Riverview Hotel or Namgay Heritage
This morning, rising early, it is fun to walk through the rice fields to Chime Lhakhang, built in 1499 by the 14th Drukpa hierarch, Ngawang Choegyel. Earlier, the site w...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Tiger’s Nest Resort and Spa or Nakgsel Boutique Hotel & Spa
This morning, after a leisurely breakfast, you can tour the city. Thimphu contrasts sharply with most cities you have visited throughout the...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Camping – Tiger’s Nest Resort and Spa or Nakgsel Boutique Hotel & Spa
Paro is at an altitude of 7545’, and serves as an ideal spot for rice growing. The special red rice from this valley has found a ...
Meals: Breakfast
After breakfast, you will transfer to the airport for your flight out.
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- International airfare
- Airfare from Paro to Delhi (broken out separately)
- Flight from Delhi to Guwahati
- Hotel in Delhi
- Lodging between your destination and United States
- Meals where not indicated with a B,L,D
- Tips/gratuity (porters, drivers, local guides, etc.)
- Domestic and international airport taxes
- Other items of a personal nature including laundry, alcoholic beverages, etc.
International Airfare/Air Tickets: Refund subject to airline cancellation rules and procedures.
Land Portion & Internal Air*: Refund will be given according to the schedule outlined below.
NOTE: Minimum cancellation charge is $1,000 even for trips with land cost less than $1500.
- If 120 Days or more prior to departure date, then Applicable Cancellation Fee is $1,000 per person plus any varying non-refundable pre-payments we have made in advance on your behalf (i.e. Penalties incurred for cancelling air, deposits paid to hold reservations, etc.)
- If 61-119 Days prior to departure date, then Applicable Cancellation Fee is 50% of the land cost plus any varying non-refundable pre-payments we have made in advance on your behalf (i.e. Penalties incurred for cancelling air, deposits paid to hold reservations, etc.)
- 60 Days or less, then No refund
- At or after departure, then No refund
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