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Bhutan Cross Country Cultural and Festivals Itinerary

Day 16 — {date16s}

Departure, Paro to Bangkok.

We recommend you overnight at the Novotel and book your flight home or onward on May 14.

Bhutan Young Monk at Temple Door — Monk in front of temple door in Bhutan. Photo by Robin Smillie used on cover of Tashi Delek magazine, the in-flight magazine of Royal Druk Air.

Notes:

On each departure morning, unless informed otherwise, please have your bags packed and leave them in your room when you go down to breakfast, lock the door and deliver the key to the front desk.

Each person is invited to bring a crisp new $100US bill for foreign exchange on the first day when we land in Paro. We make this foreign currency exchange available so you won't have to stop at a bank, our lead guide will have an envelope with $100US worth of local money called Nultrum, often referred to as Rupees since Nultrum and Indian Rupees trade at the same value and are mixed together. If you want to look up the current value of Nultrum just look up Indian Rupees as the trade currency.

Bottled water is provided, everywhere—each car has a case of it in back. So when you leave the car to go to your room please take your open water with you. Don't forget! Don't brush your teeth with tap water because it is right out of the stream after passed through a settling tank.

Sometimes you may not feel like stopping for tea and coffee or lunch, but please remember that your guide and driver need a brief pit stop, too.

There are very few proper bathrooms or toilets along the national highway so learn to say to your guide and driver, "I need to find a bush." There is toilet paper in all cars. He will find a trail leading down into the woods, just watch out for wild bears.

Wi-Fi has been available in Bhutan for just a couple of years now and is available in all hotels, some only in the lobby and some in the rooms. With some hotels it is intermittent so please be flexible and hope for the best.

The National Highway is under construction for widening and is now 90 percent complete so drive times will be reduced from previous tours. Our drivers are the best in the business, have a special license for tourism, drive cautiously and are mature family men who know every inch of the road.