Bhutan Cultural Tour

Bhutan Cultural Tour

Trip Overview

  • Best price guaranteed
  • No booking fees

Key Information

Trip Length

5 Days

Activities

Tour/Trek

Difficulty

Easy

Meal

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Accommodation

3 star Hotel

Transportation

By Air

Best Month

Sept-Dec, March-May

Group Size

Min 2 to Max 10 Persons

Trekking Style

Introductory to Bhutan Tour

The Short Bhutan Tour is ideal sneak peek at the breathtaking glimpses of Bhutan. The “Country of thunder dragon” is more than its Buddhist lifestyle and forests. Breathtaking historical, exotic cultural heritages, carved Dzongs, rivers, temples and museums paint the picture of ultimate Bhutan.

Flying Kathmandu to Paro Airport for Bhutan tour lets you wonder at Himalayas of Mount Makalu, Kanchenjunga, .Jumolhari, Jichu Drake peaks and beautiful landscapes. Besides, embracing folk heritage museum, painting schools, mini zoo and Thimphu Tashichho dzong ,the capital Thimphu city greets  you adding thrill with King’s memorial chorten, radio tower, nunnery temple, national library, school of arts and crafts. 

Punakha awaits for more surprises  with its wilderness of Rhododendrons and oak forests .In addition, you can’t miss the great Himalayan views on clear weather and artistic Punakha Dzong tucked between two rivers of Pho Chu(male)and Mo Chu(female).

The journey seems more fruitful when you wander cultural heartthrob; Paro decorated with ruined fortress, Paro Rinpung Dzong, Kichu monastery, Drugyal dzong, inevitable Druk Chhoeding Monastery and majestic Tiger’s Nest. Also known as Paro Taktsang, the Tiger’s Nest has breathtaking complex architecture built on Cliffside. The sacred Buddhist site has a great religious and identical importance for Bhutanese.Short and easy tour to Bhutan ensures for exhilarating cultural roam amidst the wilderness; absolutely free from chaos and crowd. 

Brief Itinerary

  • Day 01: Arrival at Paro in Bhutan and drive to Thimphu (2320m/7610 ft), 2 hrs/54 km
  • Day 02: Thimphu-Punakha (1250m/4000 ft), 77 km/ 3 hrs
  • Day 03: Punakha-Paro (2250m / 7382ft), 130km/4 hrs 
  • Day 04: Hike to Tiger Nest Hill and free afternoon in Paro 
  • Day 05: Paro - Kathmandu (1300m/4,265ft), 1 hr flight

Itinerary Detail

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Day 1 : Arrival at Paro in Bhutan and drive to Thimphu (2320m/7610 ft), 2 hrs/54 km

Fly Kathmandu to Paro with breathtaking view Nepalese eastern Himalayas Makalu, Kanchenjunga and Bhutanese mountain Jumolhari and its’ wide range. MMT representative at airport welcomes you and drive to capital city Thimpu followed by Check in to your hotel. Stride around the amazing Thimphu. Meander on through Folk heritage museum, Painting schools, Sangay Handicraft shop, Changangkha Lhakhang and Motithang mini zoo. You shall be astonished to have a busy tour day. Visit to Thimphu Tashichho Dzong at evening and rest of the day you can wander around the city.

Food
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Accomodation
Hotel
Elevation
2320
Day 2 : Thimphu-Punakha (4000 ft), 77 km/ 3 hrs

AEnjoy warm breakfast, explore to the memorial chorten of third king of Bhutan, radio tower that offers breathtaking view of  Thimphu valley and Thimphu Dzong before visiting the zoo to watch preserved  floras and faunas including Bhutan national animal Takin. After the visit to nunnery temple and national museum, watch the School of Arts and Crafts flaunt the preservation of Bhutanese arts. Continue the visit with drive to wonderful Punakha.  Greenery of Bhutan what lures heart of many. Forest of Rhododendron, oaks and on a clear weather Himalayas greetings is amazing. The anchored ship resembling Punakha Dzong has the most artistic architecture built between two tantalizing rivers.

Food
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Accomodation
Hotel
Elevation
1250
Day 3 : Punakha-Paro (2250m / 7382ft), 130km/4 hrs

Early breakfast and drive back to Paro. On arrival, settle in the hotel and then visit Paro Rinpung Dzong, Kichu Monastery, Drugyal Dzong and Druk Chhoeding Monastery. Spend the evening visiting shops in Paro. Overnight halt at hotel in Paro.

Food
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Accomodation
Lodge
Elevation
2250
Day 4 : Hike to Tiger Nest Hill and free afternoon in Paro

After breakfast hike to Taktsang (Tiger's Nest) Monastery, Bhutan's most famous monastery situated at 3180 meters. Guru Rinpoche (spiritual master) is said to have flown on the back of a tigress from Singye Dzong in Lhuentse to meditate in a cave where Taktsang Monastery now stands. Lunch will be served in the Cafeteria Restaurant. The monastery is perched on the edge of a steep cliff, about 900 meters above Paro Valley. After exploring the monastery, hike down to the Paro valley Evening time wonder around in the Paro town 

Food
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Accomodation
Hotel
Elevation
2250
Day 5 : Paro - Kathmandu (1300m/4,265ft), 1 hr flight

Transfer to the Paro airport early morning for flight to Kathmandu. The 1 hour flight lands on Tribhuvan International airport(TIA), you will be welcomed by MMT representative and transfer to Hotel.  

                          “End of the Trip"

Food
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Accomodation
Hotel
Elevation
1300

What Is Included ?

  • Bhutan Royalties, tourists fees, Visa fees.
  • Accommodations in listed or similar hotels.
  • All meals in Bhutan.
  • All private transfers and sightseeing with entrance fees.
  • Local English Speaking Tour leader/Guide.
  • All permits for Bhutan

What Is Excluded?

  • Flights into and out of Bhutan.
  • Medical / Travel Insurance.
  • All personal expenses such as bars, beverages, laundry, telephone, tips etc.

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2025-01-01
5 Days
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2025-01-08
5 Days
Available
3
2025-01-15
5 Days
Available
4
2025-01-22
5 Days
Available
5
2025-01-29
5 Days
Available
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Cost Per Person
Availability
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2025-02-01
5 Days
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2025-02-08
5 Days
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3
2025-02-15
5 Days
Available
4
2025-02-22
5 Days
Available
5
2025-02-28
5 Days
Available
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Cost Per Person
Availability
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2025-03-02
5 Days
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2025-03-04
5 Days
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2025-03-06
5 Days
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4
2025-03-08
5 Days
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5
2025-03-10
5 Days
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6
2025-03-12
5 Days
Available
7
2025-03-14
5 Days
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8
2025-03-16
5 Days
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9
2025-03-18
5 Days
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10
2025-03-20
5 Days
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11
2025-03-22
5 Days
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12
2025-03-24
5 Days
Available
13
2025-03-26
5 Days
Available
14
2025-03-28
5 Days
Available
15
2025-03-30
5 Days
Available
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Trip Duration
Cost Per Person
Availability
Join Group
1
2025-04-02
5 Days
Available
2
2025-04-04
5 Days
Available
3
2025-04-06
5 Days
Available
4
2025-04-08
5 Days
Available
5
2025-04-10
5 Days
Available
6
2025-04-12
5 Days
Available
7
2025-04-14
5 Days
Available
8
2025-04-16
5 Days
Available
9
2025-04-18
5 Days
Available
10
2025-04-20
5 Days
Available
11
2025-04-22
5 Days
Available
12
2025-04-24
5 Days
Available
13
2025-04-26
5 Days
Available
14
2025-04-28
5 Days
Available
15
2025-04-30
5 Days
Available
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Start Date
Trip Duration
Cost Per Person
Availability
Join Group
1
2025-05-02
5 Days
Available
2
2025-05-04
5 Days
Available
3
2025-05-06
5 Days
Available
4
2025-05-08
5 Days
Available
5
2025-05-10
5 Days
Available
6
2025-05-12
5 Days
Available
7
2025-05-14
5 Days
Available
8
2025-05-16
5 Days
Available
9
2025-05-18
5 Days
Available
10
2025-05-20
5 Days
Available
11
2025-05-22
5 Days
Available
12
2025-05-24
5 Days
Available
13
2025-05-26
5 Days
Available
14
2025-05-28
5 Days
Available
15
2025-05-30
5 Days
Available
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Start Date
Trip Duration
Cost Per Person
Availability
Join Group
1
2025-06-01
5 Days
Available
2
2025-06-08
5 Days
Available
3
2025-06-15
5 Days
Available
4
2025-06-22
5 Days
Available
5
2025-06-29
5 Days
Available
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Start Date
Trip Duration
Cost Per Person
Availability
Join Group
1
2025-07-01
5 Days
Available
2
2025-07-08
5 Days
Available
3
2025-07-15
5 Days
Available
4
2025-07-22
5 Days
Available
5
2025-07-29
5 Days
Available

Additional Information

Trip Information Section

Meals

Eating is a big part of Holiday. Travelling with Mountain Mart Trek, you experience the vast array of wonderful food Nepalese, Chinese, Continental, Italian and several local cuisines. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner are included in the package. Your guide will suggest delicious, hygienic and each place special food during your trip. Mountain restaurant owner prefer not to order many dishes and waste food as they would like to cater more trekkers with limited food before run off stuck. Its a week or more days hard work to porters and caravans to bring food to these places. During this trek you will usually have breakfast and dinner at the same Lodge, lunch will be eaten at one of the trail side restaurants en-route.

Accommodation

A Tea House is the combination of guest house, restaurant, and social hang out. Private rooms are available in most Tea Houses, except for high altitudes ones where it will be just dormitories. The lodges are fairly basic. The rooms are spare with twin beds and very little additional furniture. Blankets are generally provided. There is a large dining room-cum-lounge, warmed by the bukhara stove (an iron cylinder, fitted with a chimney duct, in which a log fire is lighted. There is normally no electric lighting in the rooms unless the village has hydroelectric power. The dining room usually hassolar lighting.
Most teahouses now also have electricity for charging small appliances - mobile phones and cameras - and there may be a small charge for this.

Drinking water:

Mountain Mart Trek provides unlimited chlorine/Iodine treated water during the trek. All tea houses have mineral water and boiled water for trekkers upon additional cost. We discourage the purchase of Mineral water and bottled water while on the Trek as plastic bottles aredifficult to dispose off and have become an environmental problem

Route Map

Mountain Mart Trek offers you complementary route map and T-shirt

What to take

This is a very active trip, meaning you will be on the move most of the time, so pack as lightly as possible. We provide one porter for every two travellers; your trekking gear will be carried by the porter in a duffel bag that we will provide. The maximum the porters are allowed to carry 15 kgs per trekker means 30 kgs from 2 trekkers . Unnecessary luggage can left in Kathmandu Hotel and its absolutely free of cost. .

Important to note:

Please read the Checklist section of this trip notes for additional details of what you need to bring for the trek on this trip. You will need to bring a comfortable medium sized day pack to carry the things that you will need during the day. This should have a waist strap or (better) a padded waist belt. The weather is subject to change in high altitude so layered clothing is recommended throughout the year.

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Bhutan Cultural Tour - 5 Days

Bhutan Cultural Tour

Trip Overview

  • Best price guaranteed
  • No booking fees

Key Information

Trip Length

5 Days

Activities

Tour/Trek

Difficulty

Easy

Meal

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Accommodation

3 star Hotel

Transportation

By Air

Best Month

Sept-Dec, March-May

Group Size

Min 2 to Max 10 Persons

Trekking Style

Introductory to Bhutan Tour

The Short Bhutan Tour is ideal sneak peek at the breathtaking glimpses of Bhutan. The “Country of thunder dragon” is more than its Buddhist lifestyle and forests. Breathtaking historical, exotic cultural heritages, carved Dzongs, rivers, temples and museums paint the picture of ultimate Bhutan.

Flying Kathmandu to Paro Airport for Bhutan tour lets you wonder at Himalayas of Mount Makalu, Kanchenjunga, .Jumolhari, Jichu Drake peaks and beautiful landscapes. Besides, embracing folk heritage museum, painting schools, mini zoo and Thimphu Tashichho dzong ,the capital Thimphu city greets  you adding thrill with King’s memorial chorten, radio tower, nunnery temple, national library, school of arts and crafts. 

Punakha awaits for more surprises  with its wilderness of Rhododendrons and oak forests .In addition, you can’t miss the great Himalayan views on clear weather and artistic Punakha Dzong tucked between two rivers of Pho Chu(male)and Mo Chu(female).

The journey seems more fruitful when you wander cultural heartthrob; Paro decorated with ruined fortress, Paro Rinpung Dzong, Kichu monastery, Drugyal dzong, inevitable Druk Chhoeding Monastery and majestic Tiger’s Nest. Also known as Paro Taktsang, the Tiger’s Nest has breathtaking complex architecture built on Cliffside. The sacred Buddhist site has a great religious and identical importance for Bhutanese.Short and easy tour to Bhutan ensures for exhilarating cultural roam amidst the wilderness; absolutely free from chaos and crowd. 

Brief Itinerary

  • Day 01: Arrival at Paro in Bhutan and drive to Thimphu (2320m/7610 ft), 2 hrs/54 km
  • Day 02: Thimphu-Punakha (1250m/4000 ft), 77 km/ 3 hrs
  • Day 03: Punakha-Paro (2250m / 7382ft), 130km/4 hrs 
  • Day 04: Hike to Tiger Nest Hill and free afternoon in Paro 
  • Day 05: Paro - Kathmandu (1300m/4,265ft), 1 hr flight

Itinerary Detail

Day 1 : Arrival at Paro in Bhutan and drive to Thimphu (2320m/7610 ft), 2 hrs/54 km

Fly Kathmandu to Paro with breathtaking view Nepalese eastern Himalayas Makalu, Kanchenjunga and Bhutanese mountain Jumolhari and its’ wide range. MMT representative at airport welcomes you and drive to capital city Thimpu followed by Check in to your hotel. Stride around the amazing Thimphu. Meander on through Folk heritage museum, Painting schools, Sangay Handicraft shop, Changangkha Lhakhang and Motithang mini zoo. You shall be astonished to have a busy tour day. Visit to Thimphu Tashichho Dzong at evening and rest of the day you can wander around the city.

Food
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Accomodation
Hotel
Elevation
2320
Day 2 : Thimphu-Punakha (4000 ft), 77 km/ 3 hrs

AEnjoy warm breakfast, explore to the memorial chorten of third king of Bhutan, radio tower that offers breathtaking view of  Thimphu valley and Thimphu Dzong before visiting the zoo to watch preserved  floras and faunas including Bhutan national animal Takin. After the visit to nunnery temple and national museum, watch the School of Arts and Crafts flaunt the preservation of Bhutanese arts. Continue the visit with drive to wonderful Punakha.  Greenery of Bhutan what lures heart of many. Forest of Rhododendron, oaks and on a clear weather Himalayas greetings is amazing. The anchored ship resembling Punakha Dzong has the most artistic architecture built between two tantalizing rivers.

Food
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Accomodation
Hotel
Elevation
1250
Day 3 : Punakha-Paro (2250m / 7382ft), 130km/4 hrs

Early breakfast and drive back to Paro. On arrival, settle in the hotel and then visit Paro Rinpung Dzong, Kichu Monastery, Drugyal Dzong and Druk Chhoeding Monastery. Spend the evening visiting shops in Paro. Overnight halt at hotel in Paro.

Food
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Accomodation
Lodge
Elevation
2250
Day 4 : Hike to Tiger Nest Hill and free afternoon in Paro

After breakfast hike to Taktsang (Tiger's Nest) Monastery, Bhutan's most famous monastery situated at 3180 meters. Guru Rinpoche (spiritual master) is said to have flown on the back of a tigress from Singye Dzong in Lhuentse to meditate in a cave where Taktsang Monastery now stands. Lunch will be served in the Cafeteria Restaurant. The monastery is perched on the edge of a steep cliff, about 900 meters above Paro Valley. After exploring the monastery, hike down to the Paro valley Evening time wonder around in the Paro town 

Food
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Accomodation
Hotel
Elevation
2250
Day 5 : Paro - Kathmandu (1300m/4,265ft), 1 hr flight

Transfer to the Paro airport early morning for flight to Kathmandu. The 1 hour flight lands on Tribhuvan International airport(TIA), you will be welcomed by MMT representative and transfer to Hotel.  

                          “End of the Trip"

Food
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Accomodation
Hotel
Elevation
1300

What Is Included ?

  • Bhutan Royalties, tourists fees, Visa fees.
  • Accommodations in listed or similar hotels.
  • All meals in Bhutan.
  • All private transfers and sightseeing with entrance fees.
  • Local English Speaking Tour leader/Guide.
  • All permits for Bhutan

What Is Excluded?

  • Flights into and out of Bhutan.
  • Medical / Travel Insurance.
  • All personal expenses such as bars, beverages, laundry, telephone, tips etc.

Additional Information

Trip Information Section

Meals

Eating is a big part of Holiday. Travelling with Mountain Mart Trek, you experience the vast array of wonderful food Nepalese, Chinese, Continental, Italian and several local cuisines. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner are included in the package. Your guide will suggest delicious, hygienic and each place special food during your trip. Mountain restaurant owner prefer not to order many dishes and waste food as they would like to cater more trekkers with limited food before run off stuck. Its a week or more days hard work to porters and caravans to bring food to these places. During this trek you will usually have breakfast and dinner at the same Lodge, lunch will be eaten at one of the trail side restaurants en-route.

Accommodation

A Tea House is the combination of guest house, restaurant, and social hang out. Private rooms are available in most Tea Houses, except for high altitudes ones where it will be just dormitories. The lodges are fairly basic. The rooms are spare with twin beds and very little additional furniture. Blankets are generally provided. There is a large dining room-cum-lounge, warmed by the bukhara stove (an iron cylinder, fitted with a chimney duct, in which a log fire is lighted. There is normally no electric lighting in the rooms unless the village has hydroelectric power. The dining room usually hassolar lighting.
Most teahouses now also have electricity for charging small appliances - mobile phones and cameras - and there may be a small charge for this.

Drinking water:

Mountain Mart Trek provides unlimited chlorine/Iodine treated water during the trek. All tea houses have mineral water and boiled water for trekkers upon additional cost. We discourage the purchase of Mineral water and bottled water while on the Trek as plastic bottles aredifficult to dispose off and have become an environmental problem

Route Map

Mountain Mart Trek offers you complementary route map and T-shirt

What to take

This is a very active trip, meaning you will be on the move most of the time, so pack as lightly as possible. We provide one porter for every two travellers; your trekking gear will be carried by the porter in a duffel bag that we will provide. The maximum the porters are allowed to carry 15 kgs per trekker means 30 kgs from 2 trekkers . Unnecessary luggage can left in Kathmandu Hotel and its absolutely free of cost. .

Important to note:

Please read the Checklist section of this trip notes for additional details of what you need to bring for the trek on this trip. You will need to bring a comfortable medium sized day pack to carry the things that you will need during the day. This should have a waist strap or (better) a padded waist belt. The weather is subject to change in high altitude so layered clothing is recommended throughout the year.

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