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    • TravelerMal schauen
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      Day 66

      Ins Phobjikha Tal

      January 3, 2024 in Bhutan ⋅ ⛅ 3 °C

      Nach dem Tempel gings Richtung Phobjikha Tal. Ein Tal, eigentlich Hochland, immerhin auf 3000m wo hauptsächlich Kartoffeln angebaut werden. Zwei Stunden Autofahrt mit kleiner Kaffepause. Irre was man da alles so beim vorbeifahren sieht. Eigentlich würde man gern alle paar km aus dem Auto springen, weil man wieder was interessantes entdeckt hat.
      Weil Lobzang mitbekommen hat, dass ich gefallen am Hiken gefunden habe, hat er heute auch wieder eine kleine Wanderung eingeplant.
      Das hat mir auch geholfen die vielen Penisse aus dem Kopf zu kriegen.
      Durch ein paar Bauernhöfe, Wald, Wiese und dem Gebiet wo Yaks und Esel rumlaufen und Schwarzhalskraniche hausen. selten und scheu, haben aber welche gesehen 👍. Sonst is da nix, nichtmal eine Art Laden. Einfach nur Ruhe und Kälte. Man war das kalt.
      Danach waren wir noch (sehr spät) Mittagessen, was so fantastisch gut war, dass wir uns vollgefressen hatten und einstimmig beschlossen hatten nix mehr zu machen.
      Ab ins sehr rustikale Hotel und ein paar Holzscheite verbrannt...      Read more

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    • Two wheels to the Tiger's Nest
      Day 68

      Day 68 - Phobjikha

      November 14, 2023 in Bhutan ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C

      A slightly shorter day today on the bikes broken up with a visit to Tongsa Dzong (fortified monastery). We arrived in good time to see some of the black necked cranes (which migrate here every winter from Siberia) including a couple that were being treated for injuries*. Also saw some yaks on the way. It’s very cold here after the heat of the last 3 days. The hotel has a nice wood fire on the go and we even have a wood stove in the room!
      *We're staying in a Ramsar Conservation Area. There was no electricity in the valley until 2008, as they didn't want to disturb the cranes.      Read more

    • TravelerIn Pursuit Of Happiness BHUTAN
      Day 7

      JUMP into the trail to Phobjikha Valley

      November 12, 2024 in Bhutan ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C

      After getting all the positivity from the Gangtey Monastery it was the time to head into the main attraction "The Gangtey Trail".

      The trail begins from the main stone wall to the north of Gangtey Monastery, passes through Semchubara village and ends at Khewang, it started down with a fairly flat totally green terrain (it made me jump in excitement in literal sense). We were joined by a stray dog when we started and he was there till the very end. En route, we passed grass planes, potato fields, farmhouses and dense pine forests, before reaching a vast open space of the wide PHOBJIKHA VALLEY where we even a serpentine river stream flowing. The view of the valley is so picturesque that it's look straight out of postcard. It will not be a exaggeration if I would compare it with Scottish Highlands where I was last year.

      At the end of the hike we saw cattles and horses grazing on the open. It is also the season of famous migratory black-necked cranes to come in the valley buy we didn't witnessed any today.

      It is a gentle 1.5 hours natural trek totally let us soak up the remarkable Phobjikha Valley. The complete experience amd the beauty of the valley left us mesmerized and spellbound with sheer joy.

      🔍Mythical Fact - As shared by our guide this reason grows potatoes and not rice because as per legend one side of river symbolizes black snake and other side symbolizes white boar. In ancient time there was a fight between the two and ot was decided that if boar wins the farmers here will grow rice amd it snake wins they will grow potatoes. And guess what the snake won and since then they are growing potatoes in the valley.      Read more

    • TravelerIn Pursuit Of Happiness BHUTAN
      Day 7

      Night In the valley

      November 12, 2024 in Bhutan ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C

      After an overwhelming experience of the trail we head to check in at our place to stay for night and its "Yue-Loki" - It is a moderate, rustic country lodge built in classic Bhutanese architecture. Conveniently located to explore fascinating Phobjikha valley. Our pine-clad room had very cosy ambience with wooded floor and large windows yo get best view of the valley. The most striking feature of our room was that it was equipped with traditional wood fired room heater which they called "Bukhari". The engineer in me found this totally fascinating and looked into all the technical details of its operation and functioning.

      After admiring the beauty of the hotel we just wondered in the small village and again admired the beauty of the valley from different viewpoints. As the sunset the temperature started to drop and the weather forecast said that it might go sub zero now for people like us coming from desert it can lead to hypothermia. So we returned to the hotel. At night the hotel appeared much more charming.

      Later we had our dinner in wood paneled dinning room with traditional decor and a bigger Bukhari which was in operation and keeping it warm. The entire staff was super friendly and warm, they served us delicious Indian dinner.

      After dinner we returned to our room requesting the staff to light up Bukhari in our room as surely for us the room electric heater was not enough and secondly engineer in me really wanted to see the starting procedure and it's operation and I was blessed as one of the staff did showed me how it's done although I would say procedure was quite 'unsafe' using bare hands.      Read more

    • TravelerBhutan
      Day 7

      Phobjika Valley Walk & Farmhouse Stay

      May 20, 2018 in Bhutan ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C

      Valley of the Black-Necked Cranes : not the season natuurlijk, dus enkel de manke plaatselijke kraanvogel gezien ...

      Na wandeling door de vallei 🌸> Farmhouse Stay @ Gangtey Gompa (Wangdue Phodrang)

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    • TravelerDelhi, Bhutan und Kathmandu
      Day 14

      Black-necked Crane Visitor Centre

      April 11, 2019 in Bhutan ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

      Im Winter kommen Kraniche aus China und Nepal in dieses Tal um zu überwintern. Inzwischen etwa 550 Stück. Leider sind diese bereits Ende März schon wieder alle zurückgeflogen. Ausser einem Kranich, der vor einigen Jahren von einem Hund verletzt wurde, nicht mehr fliegen kann und seither in einem traurigen Gehege bleiben muss.
      Neben diesem Kranich gibt es eine umfangreiche Ausstellung mit einem Film (von ARTE) und der obligatorischen Spendenbox.

      Klein aber fein.      Read more

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    • chantal muellerno hurry, no worry
      Day 18

      the valley of black-neck crane & patato

      May 14, 2019 in Bhutan ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

      Today we drove to the Phobjikha valley, a journey of around three hours for the 80km over a pass of 3500m and then down to 2600m. The valley is famous for the black-neck crane that arrive in November to spend the winter here before heading to Tibet in spring. A festival is taking place when they arrive so the little village has quite a few accommodations. I get to stay again at the best one, called Dawachen, which means wisdom of true happiness. The night before I was staying at the Hotel with the name of heaven. So from Heaven to Happiness, no wonder I am so in a Hakuna matata mood all the time here in Bhutan. After lunch we took a quick walk up to a monastery, had a quick visit (we couldn’t visit it all since under renovation because of earthquake damage) and then went back to the hotel.
      Tomorrow I’ll hike up another pass and drive around this beautiful valley. It is very remote, on the way here we crossed way more cows, dogs and horses on the street the cars. It is also the black mountain valley, the name coming from the dense forest on the top of the mountain. Btw, the amount, that goes to the government, is 65$ and not 200$ like written in the German tourist guide. At the moment tourist from India do not to buy this visa / entry fee per day and the Bhutanese are confronted with a increasing number of Indian tourist which often visit the country on a low bidget. They are afraid of over tourism.      Read more

    • chantal muellerno hurry, no worry
      Day 19

      up the hill

      May 15, 2019 in Bhutan ⋅ 🌧 11 °C

      Today the last hike of that journey was on the list. I was picked up at 9 and we started a bit lower then planned and under rathr cloudy conditions. It started to rain a bit, it was such a beautiful hike through the forest full of rhododendrons. They are marvelous. We had lunch at the top of the pass where we were supposed to see a lot of mountains but there was fog. We went down quickly, Tenzin doing every couple of hundreds of meter a sound to chase away bears. We didn’t cross one but some very colorful bird, one a big bigger then the blood fasan on the Jomolhari trek. I was back at the hotel at 3 already and had again a whole lot of time just for me. Splendid!Read more

    • skip's retirement travelNepal, Bhutan and Tibet
      Day 7

      Gangtey Valley, Bhutan

      September 4, 2019 in Bhutan ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C

      Beautiful valley that is also very important ecologically. This is the place where the black necked cranes come to mate when the fly down from Tibet. The first 2 pics are of the crane, taken at the crane center. One is stuffed and in the museum. The other is a live injured bird housed at the center. The next two are of the valley, taken from opposite sides. The last two are from Lawala Pass on the road to Gangtey. 5th is a long view from the top. Last is a stupa and prayer flags, also at the crest.Read more

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