The Land of the Thunder Dragon, or Bhutan as the world knows it, is in many ways still the magical kingdom from the past. Snuggled and protected in the deep folds of the great Himalayas, the Kingdom seems to lose itself in the clouds. Today, it is an exotic destination, revealed to the outside world by the parting of the impenetrable veil of the Himalayan mist.
Isolated for centuries by its geographical situation and untouched by other civilizations, Bhutan started its modernization or planned development only in 1961. The roads came in the late 1960s and till date there are no traffic lights!
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