Choekhor Valley to Punakha Valley

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Wednesday 31st October



After about 7 hrs on the bumpiest , dustiest and windiest roads on the planet, we arrived in Punakha Valley and visited<span> Chimi Lhakhang, a monastery built by the Divine Madman, Lama Drukpa Kuenley.<span> It was a great walk across the paddy fields.

Most of the monastarys here in Bhutan are also orphanages in disguise.<span> There are obviously religious monks living in them, but there are also orphaned boys, and boys whose parents cant afford or aren’t able to keep their children, living in them as well.

Lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time yet again, we have received a “wang” (blessing) from the resident monk.<span> This entails being dubbed on the head by an arrow and a large wooden phallus, much to our amusement.<span> Well mine at least.<span> I’m not really sure how Shane felt about being hit on the head with a giant wooden penis LOL.

Shane says: Not too happy at all. Big wooden penis bang on my head, yeah great. Also seems the wooden penis Sharls received has blocking powers.<span> No more for me!



Our hotel , Zangtopelri, is pretty average to say the least and dinner was much the same. Still it wasn’t as bad as Dogsville, Valparaiso last year so all good:-)

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