Bhutan, The Land of Thunder Dragon
 

Perched on the snowlines of the Himalayas and isolated from the rest of the world for a long time, Bhutan opened its door to tourists in 1974. Often called the last Shangri-La, Bhutan today represents last of the Buddhist countries with a rich and pristine culture typical to the Buddhist culture.

Tantric Mahayana Buddhism of the Drukpa Kagyu sect is the officially adopted religion of Bhutan although a fraction of people practices other religions like Hinduism and Christianity. Bhutan’s verdant forests, snow-crowned mountains, unique culture and tradition, arts and architecture, exotic flora and fauna, unparalleled and breathtaking scenic beauty, are some of the rare legacy the Bhutanese pride on and offer to the rest of the world.

Government, with its policy of “high value and low volume”, restricts the number of visitors to only a few thousand tourists a year.

A Brief Religious, Cultural and Secular History of Bhutan.