The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no "meaning," they are meaning; the mountains are. The sun is round. I ring with life, and the mountains ring, and when I can hear it, there is a ringing that we share. I understand all this, not in my mind but in my heart, knowing how meaningless it is to try to capture what cannot be expressed, knowing that mere words will remain when I read it all again, another day.” ― Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard

Geography here is on a humbling scale and every view is lit with spectacular mountain light. Your trip will take you past glittering turquoise lakes, across huge plains dotted with yaks and nomad’s tents and over high passes draped with colorful prayer flags. Hike past the ruins of remote hermitages, stare up open-mouthed at the north face of Everest or make an epic overland trip along some of the world’s wildest roads

In the eight century CE, Guru Rinpoche ( Padmasambhava, or second Buddha) made his legendary trip from eastern Bhutan to western Bhutan on the back of flying tigress to subdue the evil spirits who hindered Buddhism. After defeating them , he blessed them as guardians of the doctrine, thus introducing Tantric Buddhism to Bhutan. Taktshang or Tiger Nest , in the Paro Valley is where he landed and today it remains one of the most sacred places in Bhutan

"So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked." —Mark Twain, from Following the Equator