Bhutan Travel Guide by Lonely Planet

Author:Lonely Planet
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications

DAY 1: NATIONAL MUSEUM TO JILI DZONG

10KM / 3½-5 HOURS / 1115M ASCENT, 40M DESCENT

The first day is fairly short but it’s all uphill, gaining more than 1000m. Most groups start from a trailhead outside Paro’s National Museum at 2470m. The route follows a dirt road for 30 minutes before making the first of many short cuts that avoid the looping road. After 40 minutes, pass Kuenga Choeling Lhakhang (unusually a Gelugpa-school chapel; thus the photos of the Dalai Lama) at 2650m. A further hour’s climb takes you to the stone houses and apple orchards of Damchena (2880m), 10 minutes before a mani (carved stone) wall and campsite in a clearing known as Damche Gom (2985m).

It’s then a long, but not steep, climb through forests of golden moss to a herders’ camp just before Jili La (3540m). Cross the pass (marked by a cairn and broken chorten) and drop to an excellent camping place in a meadow surrounded by rhododendron forests just below Jili Dzong.

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