Historical Sites In Bhutan

Buddha Dordenma Statue སྟོན་པ་རྡོར་གདན་མ།

Towering Buddha statue overlooking the valley & perched above a temple filled with art & exhibits.

Kuenselphodrang, Thimphu, Bhutan

Paro Taktsang

Sacred mountainside monastery with ornately designed temples & art, plus legendary meditation caves.

Bhutan

National Museum of Bhutan འབྲུག་གི་འགྲེམས་སྟོན་ཁང་།

Cultural heritage museum in a 17th-century watchtower with Bhutanese statues, paintings & other art.

CCHG+F5G, Paro, Bhutan

Buxa Fort

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།

Iconic Buddhist stupa featuring a gilded spire, a vase-shaped upper story & 4 ornate portals.

FJ8Q+J47, Chhoten Lam, Thimphu, Bhutan

Royal Takin Preserve

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་།

Imposing palace & fortress dating to the 17th century in a serene setting overlooking the river.

HVJ7+V6Q, Bhutan

Simply Bhutan

Museum resembling a Bhutanese village, featuring traditional cuisine, demonstrations & performances.

FJCJ+HFH, Genyen Lam, Thimphu, Bhutan

Folk Heritage Museum Kawajangsa

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།

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་།

17th-century fortress & monastery featuring many ornate carvings & chapels with colorful murals.

846 Je Bamo Lam SE, Tshatshobaykha, Bhutan

Zangtopelri

V96M+P3W, Phuentsholing, Bhutan

Chimi Lhakhang

Built in 1499, this Buddhist monastery features a statue of Lama Kunley & a wooden phallus.

GVGH+R7R, Teoprongchu, Bhutan

Dochula

FQQ2+XGQ, Punakha Highway, Dochula, Bhutan

Drukgyel Dzong འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་རྫོང་།

Partially reconstructed remains of a monumental 17th-century fortress & Buddhist monastery.

Drugyel Dzong, Chuyul, Bhutan

Tiger nest Bhutan

F9R7+PCR, Taktsang trail, Paro, Bhutan

Kurjey Lhakhang སྐུ་རྗེས་ལྷ་ཁང་།

Buddhist monastery with scenic surrounds & a dress code requiring kabney & rachu for visitors.

HPPJ+R4R, Jakar, Bhutan

Trongsa Dzong ཀྲོང་གསར་རྫོང།

FGX3+VXG, Trongsa, Bhutan

Chorten Kora མཆོད་རྟེན་སྐོར་རར།

Striking whitewashed stupa dating from 1740, an annual pilgrimage destination.

JF4V+CX7, Trashiyangtse, Bhutan

Druk Wangyal Lhakhang

FPRX+G3G, Dochula, Bhutan

Chumphu Nye

HC5V+V7J, Paro, Bhutan

Trashigang Dzong

Trashigang 11001, Bhutan

Phajoding Monastery ཕ་ཇོ་ལྡིང་།

FHQF+MRM, Phajoding-Pumola Trail, Phajoding, Bhutan

Tamshing Lhakhang གཏམ་ཞིང་ལྷ་ཁང་།

Humble Buddhist temple & monastery constructed in 1501, showcasing traditional wall paintings.

HPQQ+246, Jakar, Bhutan

Chendebji Chorten སྤྱན་སྡེབ་སྦྱིས་མཆོད་རྟེན།

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་།

G94J+46V, Bhutan

Paro Taktsang Base

Taktsang trail, Bhutan

Gomtu Second gate for Bhutan

R56R+W2, Makrapara Tea Garden, West Bengal 735228

Taa-Dzong བལྟ་རྫོང་།

FGX5+P2H, Bumthang - Ura Hwy, Trongsa, Bhutan

Atthatplace Bhutan Tours

Ólakha Lam-4, Thimphu 00975, Bhutan

Gom Kora

CHG7+7PF, Trashiyangtse, Bhutan

Jakar Dzong བྱ་དཀར་རྫོང་།

Built on a temple site in 1549, this grand former fortress features a central tower & scenic views.

Jakhar Dzongkhag Office, Jakar, Bhutan

Domendrel Tsho

JM4C+M49, Bhutan

Thru Epang Palace ཁྲུས་སྤང་ཕོ་བྲང་།

GG35+MF5, Trongsa, Bhutan

Dungkar Nagtshang

R4F6+FVH, Bhutan

Dechenphodrang Chorten

FJXM+944, Thimphu, Bhutan

Bhutan Turning

Bhulan Turning, Bus Stop, SH12A, Toorsa Tea Garden, West Bengal 735182

Jangsarbu Lhakhang

CCHF+G33, Paro, Bhutan

Paro Town Street

CCH7+RJR, Paro, Bhutan

Wangduechhoeling Palace Museum and Cultural Center དབང་འདུས་ཆོས་གླིང་རྫོང་།

HP4X+G55, Jakar, Bhutan

Tsheringma Drupchhu

FC2V+897, Trongsa, Bhutan

Chele la pass Laptsa

98CV+X7, Paro, Bhutan

Yungdrung Choling Palace

9H86+4CV, Trongsa, Bhutan

Chamkhar City Center

GQX3+PFP, Unnamed Road, Jakar, Bhutan

Yuling Lhakhang

GF6X+JWV, Trongsa, Bhutan

Yum Tsho

H93G+CW5, Paro, Bhutan

Dunkar Choje Lhakhang

R4C5+WXV, Dungkar Kurtoe Lhuntse, Shabling, Bhutan

Do Zam

Bumthang Chhu River, Bhutan

Trongsa city center

GG25+J2M Bhutan Telecom Ltd, Trongsa, Bhutan

Lewachen Ney

J67F+RF, Bhutan