The Famous Buddhist Festival And Cultural Highlights of Bhutan. Tour Grade: Easy Vehicle based touring with involving some walking and one optional day-hike to Takshang Monasery. Paro Festival Tour Overview: Be a part of only a few westerners who have enjoyed the fascinating Tsechu festivals of Bhutan. The Tsechus are Buddhist religious festivals where masked dances depicting the events from the life of Padmasambhava, the eighth century Nyingmapa Buddhist teacher, are staged. The dances are performed by trained monks wearing ornate costumes and impressive masks. At the Paro Festival, a large and beautifully appliqued 'Thanka' Paro Festival Dancers: Scroll known as a Tongdrol is exhibited for a few hours, at day break of the final day of the festival, enabling the people to obtain its blessing, as this holy scroll 'confers liberation by the mere sight of it' (tongdrol in Bhutanese). Join our Paro Festival Tour to visit Bhutan during the Buddhist Festival at Paro valley. Besides the Paro Valley and the festival this Paro Festival tour will also visit Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan and the Punakha and Wangdu Valleys driving over the Dochu la pass.

• 7-Day BHUTAN PARO Festival Tour (Ex Bangkok or Kolkata or Kathmandu or Delhi).
• Customized private Paro Festival tours are available on request.
• Flights to Bhutan are from Bangkok, Kolkata, Kathmandu and New Delhi.