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TexasPete
Joined: 24 May 2006
Location: Koreatown
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 Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:53 pm Post subject: Anyone been to Bhutan? |
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If i stay for another year, I would love the chance to visit this place. I'm wondering if anyone here has visited; had some good or bad experiences with the place; and costs.
I've looked some stuff up online and it appears just to spend the night in the country is around 165-200$ depending on the season though everything else seems pretty cheap there. I know they limit the number of people entering the country each year, but does anyone know if there's some long waiting list? |
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indytrucks
Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Location: The Shelf
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 12:36 am Post subject: |
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Bhutan is reserved for your average retiree with money to burn, for professionals (read: doctors, lawyers), or for National Geographic photographers who have a deep expense account. Not for your average gap year, working at ECC Songpa for 2.2 a month.
You're barking up the wrong tree here. |
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Sean02
Joined: 19 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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| I've been up to the border gate at the Indian town of Jaigon: the LP India guide (dire thing as it is) says you can get a day visa for Phuentsholing, the neighbouring Bhutanese town- but you can't. All the travellers making it up there waste their time. I recommend Eastern India for something diferent. |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 3:05 am Post subject: |
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| Sean02 wrote: |
| I've been up to the border gate at the Indian town of Jaigon: the LP India guide (dire thing as it is) says you can get a day visa for Phuentsholing, the neighbouring Bhutanese town- but you can't. All the travellers making it up there waste their time. I recommend Eastern India for something diferent. |
To be fair, the rules for these places change regularly, and for something like a trip to Bhutan overland, I would be checking current information available on the web instead of a guidebook where the research is at least a year old. |
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Sean02
Joined: 19 Jan 2008
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| Sure thing. |
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