What can we say about Bhutan? Simply amazing, and we are both so excited to be here! We stayed at the airport Novatel in Bangers last night before rising at 4.15am to catch our Drukair flight to Paro, via Dhaka, this morning. The flight in was beautiful – the snow capped peaks of the Himalayas appear above the roof of clouds in to blue skies- an amazing sight to see if you’re sitting on the left hand side of the bloody plane. Some of those peaks are over 7300 metres! Those of us on the right and over a wing missed most of this! The landscape from the air was spectacular nonetheless, and we did see a few caps so didn’t miss out completely. The plane itself flies into the narrow Paro valley, twisting quickly
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