Bhutan Holidays
What makes Bhutan so special?
Known as the ‘Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon’ by its people, Bhutan is a beautiful and profoundly spiritual country with striking mountains, vibrant Buddhist festivals and a fascinating traditional way of life. Whether you go on a cultural tour of Bhutan or a trekking holiday into its hidden valleys, Mountain Kingdoms is the Himalayan specialist with the expertise to give you an unforgettable experience.
Our trekking holidays in Bhutan will take you deep into the isolated mountains and valleys of the country. Our High Mountain treks, including the Hidden Kingdom Trek, focus on trekking amidst the highest peaks and passes in Bhutan; other trekking holiday routes stray off-the-beaten-track, following old trade and smuggling routes rarely visited by foreigners.
Tours in Bhutan typically revolve around one of the country’s many fascinating Buddhist festivals with amazing displays of national celebration and religious devotion. Our Bhutan tours also give you a unique opportunity to visit remote villages and experience the traditional Bhutanese way of life. New for 2012 is our specialist birdwatching tour - Birding in Bhutan - and our tour of the Dragon Kingdoms of Burma & Bhutan.
Whatever you want from your visit to this unique country, Mountain Kingdoms will have a trek or tour for you, and, if we don’t, we can always help you to design your own! Alongside our standard itineraries, we also offer Tailor Made holidays to Bhutan, allowing us to create the perfect trip to suit your needs. Whether you take a trekking holiday along Bhutan’s ancient trade routes, climb the highest mountains, explore remote villages or take a tour of Bhutan’s main cultural centres and sights, a trek, tour or Tailor Made holiday in Bhutan will take you right to the heart of the Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon.
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Mountain Kingdoms offer the very best cultural tours of Bhutan, trekking holidays and tailor made holidays to Bhutan. Find out more below.
Cultural tours of Bhutan
Off The Beaten Track
High Mountain Treks
Treks with Cultural Highlights
Bhutan for Families
Birding in Bhutan - NEW
This specialist tour takes us from Paro in the west to the secluded valleys of central Bhutan via a wide range of habitats that are home to many of Bhutan's 670 different species of birds. Our expert leader will carefully plan each day's activities to maximise sightings and to try and spot some of the rarest birds in the kingdom.
Definitive Cultural Tour of Bhutan
Our definitive Bhutan tour will give you a real insight into the cultural and spiritual life of the Bhutanese people. You will meet villagers and weavers in their homes, attend Buddhist festivals, visit impressive dzongs and travel right into Bhutan’s interior.
First Class Tour of Bhutan
This tour visits all the major towns and sights in Western Bhutan, staying in first class hotels that offer a real touch of sophisticated refinement to your holiday. Both departures tie into major festivals and the tour also includes a flight that gives you close-up views of Everest. At the end of the tour you can relax in a traditional hot stone bath in the luxurious Uma Paro hotel.
Dragon Kingdoms of Burma & Bhutan
Gentle walks to see the key cultural sights of these two remarkable Buddhist kingdoms. In Burma we visit: Mandalay; the temple filled plains of Bagan; and the delightful floating villages of Inle Lake. Whilst, in Bhutan, it's the Tiger's Nest Monastery, Punakha Dzong and the sights around the capital Thimphu - that take our attention.
Travels in Sikkim & Bhutan
A cross-cultural holiday that takes in the many highlights of Sikkim and Bhutan including the old British hill station of Darjeeling, the capital of Sikkim, Gantok, tea plantations and Tiger's Nest Monastery in Bhutan.
Cultural Highlights of Bhutan and Tibet
Our impressive Tibet and Bhutan tour has it all – three Himalayan capitals, visits to some of the most important cultural and sacred places of the Himalaya and fabulous Himalayan landscapes.
Secret Valleys & Sacred Mountains of Dagala
This Bhutan trekking holiday takes you into the Dalgala mountain region, a wild and beautiful area, with great opportunities to explore rarely-visited mountains. At the beginning and end of the trek there are villages and remote temples to visit and, for the botanist, a diverse wealth of plants, flowers, forest and rhododendron.
Far Eastern Bhutan - Merak & Sakten Trek
Trek in the culturally unique region of Merak & Sakten in the little visited eastern Bhutan home to the Yeti and the Brokpa people.
Treasure Discoverer's Trek - The Nabji Trail
This eco-friendly Bhutan trekking holiday takes you to the little-visited central area of the country. On trek you will spend time in the remote villages in the Black mountains and enjoy the hospitality of the villagers en-route. Shortlisted for the 2010 Sustainable Tour Award, this is the perfect trek for those who want a relatively low altitude trek in a remote, unspoilt area that benefits the local communities.
Mount Chomolhari Base Camp & the Bonte La - NEW
This trekking holiday goes into Bhutan’s remote mountainous country, crossing high passes to reach Mount Chomolhari base camp before returning via the beautiful Bonte La pass.
Hidden Kingdom Trek
This Bhutan trekking holiday has everything – remoteness, fantastic mountains, fascinating villages and impressive fortresses. You will pass through alpine forests and beneath the mountains of Chomolhari and Jichu Drake. You may see rare and exotic wildlife and meet the mountain tribes people in the high villages who see few visitors.
Mountains of Lunana
A stupendous one-month trek to the remote Lunana region of Bhutan, within shouting distance of Bhutan's highest mountain - Gankar Punsum (7,550m/24,770ft)
The Complete Lunana Snowman Trek
Trek the full length of Bhutan’s highest mountains across many high passes into the region of Lunana; the most remote district of Bhutan, where even the King has not ventured. A unique Bhutan trek that very few westerners have ever completed.
Gentle Trekking, Lodges & Hotels, Bhutan
Attend a Bhutanese festival and take delightful day walks to see villages, monasteries and important cultural sights whilst staying in comfortable lodges in the main towns of Bhutan.
Chorten Path Trek
Witness the Paro Tsechu, the most important festival in the Bhutanese calendar, and trek along the ancient mule track connecting Bhutan’s main valleys and towns.
Druk Path Trek
Take a scenic five-day trek through pristine forest and high alpine pasture and see the cultural highlights of Paro, Thimphu and Punakha.
Family Trek, Bhutan
With a varied combination of walking and sightseeing, this is the ideal family holiday to discover the sights and sounds that make Bhutan one of the most fascinating and friendly places on Earth. A real highlight of the holiday is the time spent at one of Bhutan’s spectacular festivals featuring lively music, meddlesome clowns and amazing masked dancers.
Cultural tours of Bhutan Off The Beaten Track High Mountain Treks Treks with Cultural Highlights Bhutan for FamiliesCULTURAL TOURS TO BHUTAN
Birding in Bhutan - NEW
This specialist tour takes us from Paro in the west to the secluded valleys of central Bhutan via a wide range of habitats that are home to many of Bhutan's 670 different species of birds. Our expert leader will carefully plan each day's activities to maximise sightings and to try and spot some of the rarest birds in the kingdom.
Definitive Cultural Tour of Bhutan
Our definitive Bhutan tour will give you a real insight into the cultural and spiritual life of the Bhutanese people. You will meet villagers and weavers in their homes, attend Buddhist festivals, visit impressive dzongs and travel right into Bhutan’s interior.
First Class Tour of Bhutan
This tour visits all the major towns and sights in Western Bhutan, staying in first class hotels that offer a real touch of sophisticated refinement to your holiday. Both departures tie into major festivals and the tour also includes a flight that gives you close-up views of Everest. At the end of the tour you can relax in a traditional hot stone bath in the luxurious Uma Paro hotel.
Dragon Kingdoms of Burma & Bhutan
Gentle walks to see the key cultural sights of these two remarkable Buddhist kingdoms. In Burma we visit: Mandalay; the temple filled plains of Bagan; and the delightful floating villages of Inle Lake. Whilst, in Bhutan, it's the Tiger's Nest Monastery, Punakha Dzong and the sights around the capital Thimphu - that take our attention.
Travels in Sikkim & Bhutan
A cross-cultural holiday that takes in the many highlights of Sikkim and Bhutan including the old British hill station of Darjeeling, the capital of Sikkim, Gantok, tea plantations and Tiger's Nest Monastery in Bhutan.
Cultural Highlights of Bhutan and Tibet
Our impressive Tibet and Bhutan tour has it all – three Himalayan capitals, visits to some of the most important cultural and sacred places of the Himalaya and fabulous Himalayan landscapes.
OFF THE BEATEN TRACK
Secret Valleys & Sacred Mountains of Dagala
This Bhutan trekking holiday takes you into the Dalgala mountain region, a wild and beautiful area, with great opportunities to explore rarely-visited mountains. At the beginning and end of the trek there are villages and remote temples to visit and, for the botanist, a diverse wealth of plants, flowers, forest and rhododendron.
Far Eastern Bhutan - Merak & Sakten Trek
Trek in the culturally unique region of Merak & Sakten in the little visited eastern Bhutan home to the Yeti and the Brokpa people.
Treasure Discoverer's Trek - The Nabji Trail
This eco-friendly Bhutan trekking holiday takes you to the little-visited central area of the country. On trek you will spend time in the remote villages in the Black mountains and enjoy the hospitality of the villagers en-route. Shortlisted for the 2010 Sustainable Tour Award, this is the perfect trek for those who want a relatively low altitude trek in a remote, unspoilt area that benefits the local communities.
HIGH MOUNTAIN TREKS
Mount Chomolhari Base Camp & the Bonte La - NEW
This trekking holiday goes into Bhutan’s remote mountainous country, crossing high passes to reach Mount Chomolhari base camp before returning via the beautiful Bonte La pass.
Hidden Kingdom Trek
This Bhutan trekking holiday has everything – remoteness, fantastic mountains, fascinating villages and impressive fortresses. You will pass through alpine forests and beneath the mountains of Chomolhari and Jichu Drake. You may see rare and exotic wildlife and meet the mountain tribes people in the high villages who see few visitors.
Mountains of Lunana
A stupendous one-month trek to the remote Lunana region of Bhutan, within shouting distance of Bhutan's highest mountain - Gankar Punsum (7,550m/24,770ft)
The Complete Lunana Snowman Trek
Trek the full length of Bhutan’s highest mountains across many high passes into the region of Lunana; the most remote district of Bhutan, where even the King has not ventured. A unique Bhutan trek that very few westerners have ever completed.
TREKS WITH CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS
Gentle Trekking, Lodges & Hotels, Bhutan
Attend a Bhutanese festival and take delightful day walks to see villages, monasteries and important cultural sights whilst staying in comfortable lodges in the main towns of Bhutan.
Chorten Path Trek
Witness the Paro Tsechu, the most important festival in the Bhutanese calendar, and trek along the ancient mule track connecting Bhutan’s main valleys and towns.
Druk Path Trek
Take a scenic five-day trek through pristine forest and high alpine pasture and see the cultural highlights of Paro, Thimphu and Punakha.
BHUTAN FOR FAMILIES
Family Trek, Bhutan
With a varied combination of walking and sightseeing, this is the ideal family holiday to discover the sights and sounds that make Bhutan one of the most fascinating and friendly places on Earth. A real highlight of the holiday is the time spent at one of Bhutan’s spectacular festivals featuring lively music, meddlesome clowns and amazing masked dancers.