Historical Sites In Bhutan
Buddha Dordenma Statue སྟོན་པ་རྡོར་གདན་མ།
★4.7 (3899)Towering Buddha statue overlooking the valley & perched above a temple filled with art & exhibits.
Kuenselphodrang, Thimphu, Bhutan
Paro Taktsang
★4.8 (2931)Sacred mountainside monastery with ornately designed temples & art, plus legendary meditation caves.
Bhutan
National Museum of Bhutan འབྲུག་གི་འགྲེམས་སྟོན་ཁང་།
★4.3 (1554)Cultural heritage museum in a 17th-century watchtower with Bhutanese statues, paintings & other art.
CCHG+F5G, Paro, Bhutan
Buxa Fort
★4.4 (1336)Hillside site with the remains of a British-era fort & prison, reached by a moderate trek.
QH4J+24H, Buxa, Buxa Hill Forest, West Bengal 735227
National Memorial Chhorten རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་རྗེས་དྲན་མཆོད་རྟེན།
★4.5 (1250)Iconic Buddhist stupa featuring a gilded spire, a vase-shaped upper story & 4 ornate portals.
FJ8Q+J47, Chhoten Lam, Thimphu, Bhutan
Royal Takin Preserve
★3.8 (1227)This wildlife reserve with trails is home to takin, an antelope-goat which is the national animal.
FJJ6+PH3, Bhutan
Punakha Dzong སྤུ་ན་ཁ་རྫོང་།
★4.8 (1115)Imposing palace & fortress dating to the 17th century in a serene setting overlooking the river.
HVJ7+V6Q, Bhutan
Simply Bhutan
★4.4 (1031)Museum resembling a Bhutanese village, featuring traditional cuisine, demonstrations & performances.
FJCJ+HFH, Genyen Lam, Thimphu, Bhutan
Folk Heritage Museum Kawajangsa
★4.2 (632)Folk heritage exhibits & demonstrations in a restored 18th-century house, plus educational programs.
FJMJ+2W8, Thimphu, Bhutan
Royal Textile Academy རྒྱལ་འཛིན་ཐག་རིག་སློབ་སྡེ།
★4.2 (421)Traditional Bhutanese textiles are the focus at this academy, which features a museum & classes.
Royal Textile Academy, ཐིམ་ཕུ་རྫོང་ཁག 11001, Bhutan
Simtokha Dzong སེམས་རྟོགས་ཁ་རྫོང་།
★4.5 (416)17th-century fortress & monastery featuring many ornate carvings & chapels with colorful murals.
846 Je Bamo Lam SE, Tshatshobaykha, Bhutan
Zangtopelri
★4.5 (375)V96M+P3W, Phuentsholing, Bhutan
Chimi Lhakhang
★4.4 (364)Built in 1499, this Buddhist monastery features a statue of Lama Kunley & a wooden phallus.
GVGH+R7R, Teoprongchu, Bhutan
Dochula
★4.8 (198)FQQ2+XGQ, Punakha Highway, Dochula, Bhutan
Drukgyel Dzong འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་རྫོང་།
★4.3 (163)Partially reconstructed remains of a monumental 17th-century fortress & Buddhist monastery.
Drugyel Dzong, Chuyul, Bhutan
Tiger nest Bhutan
★4.9 (138)F9R7+PCR, Taktsang trail, Paro, Bhutan
Kurjey Lhakhang སྐུ་རྗེས་ལྷ་ཁང་།
★4.7 (115)Buddhist monastery with scenic surrounds & a dress code requiring kabney & rachu for visitors.
HPPJ+R4R, Jakar, Bhutan
Trongsa Dzong ཀྲོང་གསར་རྫོང།
★4.9 (80)FGX3+VXG, Trongsa, Bhutan
Chorten Kora མཆོད་རྟེན་སྐོར་རར།
★4.6 (79)Striking whitewashed stupa dating from 1740, an annual pilgrimage destination.
JF4V+CX7, Trashiyangtse, Bhutan
Druk Wangyal Lhakhang
★4.7 (73)FPRX+G3G, Dochula, Bhutan
Chumphu Nye
★4.7 (63)HC5V+V7J, Paro, Bhutan
Trashigang Dzong
★4.5 (60)Trashigang 11001, Bhutan
Phajoding Monastery ཕ་ཇོ་ལྡིང་།
★4.7 (59)FHQF+MRM, Phajoding-Pumola Trail, Phajoding, Bhutan
Tamshing Lhakhang གཏམ་ཞིང་ལྷ་ཁང་།
★4.8 (59)Humble Buddhist temple & monastery constructed in 1501, showcasing traditional wall paintings.
HPQQ+246, Jakar, Bhutan
Chendebji Chorten སྤྱན་སྡེབ་སྦྱིས་མཆོད་རྟེན།
★4.4 (55)Bright, white Buddhist stupa dating from the 18th-century, with a mani stone prayer wall.
Trashigang-Semtokha Hwy, Bhutan
Bumdrak Monastery འབུམ་བྲག་ལྷ་ཁང་།
★4.7 (54)G94J+46V, Bhutan
Paro Taktsang Base
★4.9 (46)Taktsang trail, Bhutan
Gomtu Second gate for Bhutan
★4.0 (46)R56R+W2, Makrapara Tea Garden, West Bengal 735228
Taa-Dzong བལྟ་རྫོང་།
★4.4 (45)FGX5+P2H, Bumthang - Ura Hwy, Trongsa, Bhutan
Atthatplace Bhutan Tours
★5.0 (43)Ólakha Lam-4, Thimphu 00975, Bhutan
Gom Kora
★4.6 (39)CHG7+7PF, Trashiyangtse, Bhutan
Jakar Dzong བྱ་དཀར་རྫོང་།
★4.6 (27)Built on a temple site in 1549, this grand former fortress features a central tower & scenic views.
Jakhar Dzongkhag Office, Jakar, Bhutan
Domendrel Tsho
★4.6 (19)JM4C+M49, Bhutan
Thru Epang Palace ཁྲུས་སྤང་ཕོ་བྲང་།
★3.9 (18)GG35+MF5, Trongsa, Bhutan
Dungkar Nagtshang
★4.8 (17)R4F6+FVH, Bhutan
Dechenphodrang Chorten
★4.3 (12)FJXM+944, Thimphu, Bhutan
Bhutan Turning
★4.5 (11)Bhulan Turning, Bus Stop, SH12A, Toorsa Tea Garden, West Bengal 735182
Jangsarbu Lhakhang
★4.7 (10)CCHF+G33, Paro, Bhutan
Paro Town Street
★4.4 (10)CCH7+RJR, Paro, Bhutan
Wangduechhoeling Palace Museum and Cultural Center དབང་འདུས་ཆོས་གླིང་རྫོང་།
★4.6 (9)HP4X+G55, Jakar, Bhutan
Tsheringma Drupchhu
★4.5 (8)FC2V+897, Trongsa, Bhutan
Chele la pass Laptsa
★4.9 (7)98CV+X7, Paro, Bhutan
Yungdrung Choling Palace
★4.6 (5)9H86+4CV, Trongsa, Bhutan
Chamkhar City Center
★4.8 (5)GQX3+PFP, Unnamed Road, Jakar, Bhutan
Yuling Lhakhang
★3.5 (4)GF6X+JWV, Trongsa, Bhutan
Yum Tsho
★4.3 (4)H93G+CW5, Paro, Bhutan
Dunkar Choje Lhakhang
★4.0 (4)R4C5+WXV, Dungkar Kurtoe Lhuntse, Shabling, Bhutan
Do Zam
★5.0 (3)Bumthang Chhu River, Bhutan
Trongsa city center
★3.7 (3)GG25+J2M Bhutan Telecom Ltd, Trongsa, Bhutan
Lewachen Ney
★5.0 (3)J67F+RF, Bhutan