Land of Druk

Located in the Eastern Himalayas, Bhutan is bordered by the Tibet Autonomous Region of China in the north, the Sikkim state of India and the Chumbi Valley of Tibet in the west, Arunachal Pradesh in the east, and Assam and West Bengal in the south. Bhutan first allowed the world a peek into its inside in 1974. With four millennia of habitation, the Himalayan kingdom offers a trove of archaeological treasures, including many ornate temples and dzong fortresses. Isolation has preserved this heavily Buddhist-influenced culture of the last Shangri-La.