Bhutan News » Haa News Bhutan » Haa: Bhutan: high spirits in Haa Valley and land of happiness
Haa lies in the sensitive borderlands with China and Tibet. To reach it we drive into the clouds above Paro, past forests of hemlock and alpine meadows of blue iris and buttercups, and over the bleak ...
News Bhutan » Haa: Travel: Finding a sense of belonging in Haa Valley
As an eight-year-old, I recall having to convince another child I was playing with in Hubli, Karnataka, that I lived in Haa. Fiddlesticks and fairytales, he said, for there’s no such place. I agreed ...
News Bhutan » Haa: What the travel brochures omit about ‘the world’s happiest nation’
We’re hiking through pine-scented hills above Paro, the city fanned out below in a patchwork of rice paddies, timber-framed houses and temples. Our guide, a giggly man named Thunder who is dressed in ...
News Bhutan » Haa: In remote Bhutan, the ultimate place to unplug
I’m standing in a field high in the little-visited Haa Valley in western Bhutan flicking milky water in the four cardinal directions with a sprig of juniper. The Bhutanese man next to me, dressed in a ...
News Bhutan » Haa: Haa ready to host National Day celebrations
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