Being from a Service Family background, my love for travelling and seeing new places grew leaps and bounds at a very young age. It was when I was about nine ten years when my father planned a trip to Bhutan from Dehradun. We were to travel by road as my uncle, who too was in the Army and on deputation to the Border Roads, was the Director of projects in Bhutan. After entering Bhutan through Phuntschilling, i simply fell in love with the majestic beauty of the mountains, the flora fauna and especially all those wild strawbwerry plants growing in abundance besides the roads. the best thing that has always stayed with me was that in spite of the strawberries and cherries growing wildly, the people of Bhutan were completely uninterested to stop and gather them
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