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Welcome to Bhutan, or Drukyul,
as its people call it, the Land of the Peaceful Thunder Dragon. Snuggled
in the folds of the eastern Himalayas, the highest mountain range in the
world, Bhutan is a country where Buddhist practice is everyday life, marijuana
grows wild, and the government measures development in terms of Gross
National Happiness. Here, traditional values, environmental preservation
and good governance take precedence over economic development. Conventional
economic practices are considered delusional. No, the Bhutanese are not
closet communists.
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| Often called “The Last Shangrila (paradise),” Bhutan is the travel
world’s best kept secret, a pocket of calmness wedged between the two most
populated and larger countries, India and China. It is the only nation that
has adopted Vajrayana Buddhism as a state religion and, with 70% of the
land area under forest cover, has been marked as one of the world’s 10 biodiversity
‘hotspots’ along with the Amazon rainforests of South America and the Serengetti
plains of Africa. |
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