Tourism in Bhutan
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BHUTAN, 2013/05/15
Have you seen what are hanging under the roofs?” asks Chhimi as we wander by paddies of ripening red rice. I have. But given the Bhutanese are such polite people and Chhimi is female, I’m pretending not to notice.
“They’re large penises,” she volunteers, unabashed, “the symbol of the Divine Madman.” Besides these dangling wooden phalluses, the facade of each farmhouse near the Divine Madman’s hilltop temple near Punakha is frescoed with them. Amount are erect and most are in the act of issuing forth the seed of life — not smutty graffiti but a reference to one of Bhutan’s most revered deities.
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BHUTAN, 2013/05/15
For IT professionals and colleagues Vinod Kumar Menon and Rajaneesh Shanmugham, who work at a multinational company in Technopark, the thrill is in the ride. The duo is just back from a two-week motorcycling odyssey across Bhutan, travelling roughly 1,500 km on a circuitous route starting from Siliguri in Darjeeling amount the way to Guwahati, Assam.
