Bhutan and Bangkok

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Carolyn Chase: http://www.carolynchase.com/travel.html

Bhutan Sites

Bhutan doesn't have an official web site, but here are some run by private parties that offer some good info about Bhutan.

"Kuensel" is the national newspaper of Bhutan: http://www.kuenselonline.com

This site belongs to Sonam D. Dorjee, one of our guides: http://www.nirvanaexpeditions.com

This one is run by Gelay Jamtsho, another one of our Guides: http://www.keystobhutan.com

Gelay also volunteers at VAST (Voluntary Artists Studio, Thimphu), a non-profit organization which teaches the value of visual art and helps youth use art as a useful outlet of their free time. http://www.vast-bhutan.org

Another very informative site: http://www.kingdomofbhutan.com

The Lonely Planet's Guide to Bhutan: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/indian_subcontinent/bhutan/

United Nations International Human Rights Instruments document: http://www.bayefsky.com/core/bhutan_hri_core_1_add.105_1999.php

"Travellers and Magicians" web site: http://www.travellersandmagicians.com/tm.html
(This is the movie they finished filming in Bhutan in late 2002.)

Here's a store found by Sharon Kipfer:

The Bhutan Shop
415 S. Topanga Canyon Blvd.
Topanga, CA 90290
310-455-0731

http://www.bhutanshop.com
bhutanshop@verizon.net
Proprietor: Dorji Jamtsho--very amiable, with a cute son Sonnam.
(Lots of fabrics, many small souvenirs-thangkas, dragons, pins, 4-friends,
auspicious signs, etc, etc. Some kiras and ghos. Prices are reasonable,
considering it saves you a 23 hour plane trip each way.)

From chorister, Walt Desmond:

If you have access to older copies of National Geographic, here are some article references:

April 1914, John Claude White Castles in the Air
December 1952, Burt Kerr Dodd, Bhutan Land of the Thunder Dragon
September 1961, Desmond Doig, Bhutan the Mountain Kingdom Between Tibet and India
October 1974, John Scofield, Bhutan Crowns a New Dragon King, 546-565
November 1976, John Scofield, Life in Bhutan slowly Changes, 658-683
January 1988, Excursions in Enchantment, 58-67 (Bhutan inter alia)
May 1991, Bruce Bunting, Bhutan Kingdom in the Clouds, 179
May 1991, http://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/galleries/bhutan--5 photos by James Stanfield
Nov/Dec 2000 National Geographic Adventure, J.Greenwald and M.Paley, Blazing the Trail to Shangri-La
http://netscape.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0011/shangrila.html--7 photos from Adventure by M. Paley

And in another vein:
The University of Texas, El Paso (UTEP) uses Bhutanese style architecture. Click here for great photos and the story of its Bhutanese architecture and history of same.

Finally http://www.rianlloyd.com.sg/iancoll.html -- has 90 Bhutan photos in gallery

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