Bikomaniacs Bhutan Memories - Part 1
The hardest part of going for a long bike trip is – to return back! The easiest way to overcome that is to re-live those moments by penning them down! The wanderlust attitude is natural, probably due to genetic remnants of our nomadic forefathers. After all, we are not trees to be rooted to one place forever. Following Leh, Ladakh bike trip, we had fixed our next “region to be explored” as North East of India. Winter would be the ideal time to go there, since some parts of those areas would be flooded in summer due to melting of Himalayan glaciers. When we thought about other options nearby the “Bhutan idea” cropped up in our minds. Slowly everyone got excited to visit the “happiest nation” on the planet. Bhutan is a Himalayan Buddhist Kingdom. It is the only country in the world which measures happiness. (GNH – Gross National Happiness) and gives more importance to pleasure than growth and development. Bhutan has a forestry protection policy