Stories

TIME MAGAZINE NOTABLE: Central Bhutan's newly restored Wangduechhoeling Palace brings the monarchy's story vividly to life.

Bhutan receives the Murie Spirit of Conservation Award, recognition for a small Himalayan kingdom safeguarding a living landscape for the planet’s future

Tucked away in Bhutan’s secluded Neyphu Valley, Bhutan Spirit Sanctuary combines stillness, traditional healing, and quiet luxury

Bhutan's Royal Manas National Park: Tigers, elephants, and rare birds in one of Earth’s richest biodiversity corridors

Bhutanese travel blogger and writer Pema Choden Tenzin recounts her visit to a temple in far-eastern Bhutan that memorializes a painful history of exodus and renewal.

In the heart of frenetic Bangkok, the COMO Metropolitan, a place that feels like an exhale, moments from the city’s glittering chaos

In 1941, before a trout ever flashed in Bhutan’s rivers, a Himalayan relay was underway. The unlikely story of how a Scottish native, routed through Kashmir, became a Bhutanese native 

From Dochula’s 108 chortens to Lungchutse’s summit, a hike that threads through misty rhododendron forests to a 360-degree panorama of Bhutan’s highest peaks

Cross a prayer-flag-draped bridge, weave through rice terraces, and climb to a hilltop stupa for a gentle hike that turns into a quiet spiritual escape

In Bhutanese farmhouses age-old, healing, ritual baths offer new experiences for the curious traveler

On the long, wild approach to Gangkhar Puensum—Earth’s highest unclimbed peak—horses, hermits, cordyceps hunters, and mountain gods share the trail, turning a remote Himalayan trek into a deeply human, quietly mystical odyssey

In steamy market shacks and family kitchens across Bhutan, plump momos—pleated like tiny yak horns and dragged through fiery ezay—carry nostalgia, comfort, and an entire Himalayan homeland in every juicy bite