
Bhutan welcomes you with golden rice fields and lines of women, sickles whooshing and dry stalks rustling at the harvest.

Houses are painted with finely detailed flowers and patterns, bright red chilies and strips of meat hanging from windows to dry.

Imposing fortress-monastery looms over town and river.

...and inside monks in flowing red robes study and laugh on a monastery balcony.

Women sell fruits, vegetables, and strings of dried cheese by the roadside.

Archers compete with compound bows and targets 150 meters away.

The archers celebrate with a victory dance and song when they score.