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Bright room decorations painted on the walls in a homestay house in Ura village.
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Lit butter lamps at the beautiful 7th century Jampey Lhakhang, near Jakar in the Chokhor Valley.
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Wooden phalluses are used in agricultural fields as a scarecrow when the crops start sprouting, and also as a fertility symbol, as seen here in a buckwheat field in the Chokhor Valley.
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At a strategic vantage point perched high over Trongsa Dzong, rises its watchtower, the Ta Dzong. The Ta Dzong is now a museum dedicated to the Monarchs of Bhutan.
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Trongsa Dzong, built on a spur overlooking the gorge of the Mangde River, is the largest dzong fortress in Bhutan.
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Trongsa Dzong, built on a spur overlooking the gorge of the Mangde River, is the largest dzong fortress in Bhutan.
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At a strategic vantage point perched high over Trongsa Dzong, rises its watchtower, the Ta Dzong. The Ta Dzong is now a museum dedicated to the Monarchs of Bhutan.
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Trongsa Dzong, built on a spur overlooking the gorge of the Mangde River, is the largest dzong fortress in Bhutan.
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Also called Chorten Charo Kasho, the Chendebji Chorten, a Nepalese style stupa, was built in the 19th century by a Tibetan lama.
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Prayer flags in Phobjikha, a glacial valley on the western slopes of the Black Mountains. The valley is a designated conservation area.
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Prayer flags in Phobjikha, a glacial valley on the western slopes of the Black Mountains. The valley is a designated conservation area.
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Dawn in Phobjikha, a glacial valley on the western slopes of the Black Mountains. The valley is a designated conservation area.
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Traditional small Bhutanese house with smoke coming from roof from open fire inside, near Trongsa, Bhutan, Asia
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The great monastery of Gangtey, dating back to the 17th century, decorated with banner flags in preparation for a puja.
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Dawn in Phobjikha, a glacial valley on the western slopes of the Black Mountains. The valley is a designated conservation area.
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Some of the 108 Druk Wangyal chortens at the 3,000-metres-high Dochu La Pass.
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A series of hydro-powered prayer wheels turned by water, en route to Tango Monastery, with little clay tsha tsha images carefully balanced on the window ledges.
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Small sculpture stupa images (tsha tsha) made of clay contain ashes of the cremated dead.
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Masked dancing at Trashi Chhoe Dzong, a monastery now also housing the secretariat, the throne room and offices of the King.
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Masked dancing at Trashi Chhoe Dzong, a monastery now also housing the secretariat, the throne room and offices of the King.
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Masked dancing at Trashi Chhoe Dzong, a monastery now also housing the secretariat, the throne room and offices of the King.
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Small sculpture stupa images (tsha tsha) made of clay containing ashes of the dead, placed at the base of a prayer wheel at Drukgyel Dzong.
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Terraced rice fields at Drukgyel in the Upper Paro Valley, just below the ruins of Drukgyel Dzong.
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The ruins of Drukgyel Dzong in the Upper Paro Valley, built in 1649 to fend off Tibetan invasions but destroyed by fire caused by a butter lamp in 1951.
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A young monk studying at the Punakha Dzong (Monastery) peers through a highly decorated balustrade. At the confluence of the Mo-chu and Pho-chu Rivers,the beautifully located 17th century Punakha Dzong which was the effective winter capital of Bhutan for 300 years until 1964. The first King of Bhutan,Ugyen Wangchuck was crowned at Punakha Dzong in December 1907
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Lama Shida,as a way of suppressing local demons,built this Nepalese style Stupa,similar to Boudinath in Kathmandu,in the early 18th Century. The long mani wall of stones is particularly fine,decorated with bas-relief slate images of the Thirty-Five Confession Buddhas. Vertical prayer flags surround the Chorten
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Paro is Bhutans second largest town.The western end of the Paro valley is only 20 kms from the Tibetan border and for centuries it has been the first point of entry into Bhutan for Tibetans either invading armies or traders.
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Bhutanese woman turning Buddhist prayer wheels, Trashi Chhoe Dzong, Thimphu, Bhutan, Asia
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Man at Tashichho Dzong, the Government, Royal Palace and Religious Centre, Thimpu, Bhutan
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