Bhutan has a total land area of 46,500 square kilometers and an impressive diversity of plant, animal and bird species. The country's rich biological diversity is the result of its unique geographical location in the eastern Himalayas, within an area that extends through both the Indo-Malayan (oriental) and thee Palearctic bio-geographic regions; its annual rainfall, which is significantly higher than in the western Himalayas; and its considerable altitudinal variation, from 200 meters in the South to over 7,000 meters in the north.

Among the country's threatened birds are the Blyth's Tragopan and the Black necked crane. The country still has much of its original forest cover.

About 60% of Bhutan is forested, ranging from moist tropical evergreen and semi-evergreen forests in the south to temperate of missed Oakland conifers and sub-alpine forests of fir, spruce, juniper, larch and birch in the north.

Because of its unique setting and relatively un-exploited environment, Bhutan probably possesses the greatest biological diversity of any country of its size in Asia. It certainly contains some of the best remaining representatives of habitat types found in the Himalayas.

ITINERARY

DAY 01: ARRIVAL AT PARO

DAY 02: PARO THIMPHU

DAY 03: THIMPHU PUNAKHA

DAY 04: PUNAKHA [Halt]

DAY 05: PUNAKHA GANGTEY

DAY 06: GANGTEY TONGSA

DAY 07: TONGSA BUMTHANG

DAY 08: BUMTHANG MONGAR

DAY 09: MONGAR TASHIGANG

DAY 10: TASHIGANG [Excursion to KHALING]

DAY 11: TASHIGANG [Excursion to TASHIYANGTSE]

DAY 12: TASHIGANG MONGAR

DAY 13: MONGAR BUMTHANG

DAY 14: BUMTHANG PUNAKHA

DAY 15: PUNAKHA THIMPHU

DAY 16: THIMPHU [Excursion to PHAJODING]

DAY 17: THIMPHU PARO

DAY 18: PARO [Excursion to TAKTSANG]

DAY 19: PARO [Departure]

Early breakfast and transfer to Paro Airport for your onward departure flight.