Got up early for this long day. And I realized quickly why I had to ;) The mountain road which connects western with eastern Bhutan is of more adventurous nature if you will ;) Not only do you share the curvy pothole riddled highway with cargo trucks, strolling cows and buses but occasionally a landslide will wipe out half of the more or less one-lane road. It's a ride which will literally keep you on the edge of your seat ;)
But then we finally made it into the beautiful glacial Phobjikha Valley
. Here we went for a hike and saw the migrating black neck cranes arriving from Tibet. Had a good Bhutanese lunch in an empty restaurant and made our way back on the treacherous road to Punakha. After dinner we gazed at the illuminated Punakha Dzong.
Wieder mal frueh aus den Federn fuer diesen langen Tag. Und ich verstand schnell warum ;)
Die Bergstrasse, welche den oestlichen mit dem westlichen Teil Bhutans verbindet ist von eher abenteuerlicher Natur, wenn man so will ;)
Nicht nur, dass man die kurvige schlaglochuebersaete Strasse mit LKW's, streunenden Kuehen und Bussen teilt, nein, hier und da kommt es auch immer mal wieder zu Erdrutschen die schnell mal die Haelfte der mehr oder weniger einspurigen Strasse mitreissen. Eine Fahrt die man nicht so schnell vergisst ;)
Aber dann schafften wir es endlich in das schoene glaziale Phobjikha Valley. Angekommen machten wir eine Wanderung durch das Dorf und das Tal, wo wir die Black Neck Kraniche beobachteten, die hier gerade aus Tibet zur Ueberwinterung eingetroffen sind.
Dann hatten wir in einem menschenleeren Restaurant ein leckeres bhutanesisches Mittagessen bevor wir uns wieder auf den abenteuerlichen Weg zurrueck nach Punakha machten. Nach dem Abendessen fuhren wir noch einmal zum Punakha Dzong, um den beleuchteten Palast zu bestaunen.
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