BHUTAN: A ROOF ON THE WORLD
Posted by Vikas Acharya on November 29, 2016Amazing Article Source: badfish2.com
Taktshang Goemba, Tiger’s Nest Monastery
AT THE VERY TOP OF THE EARTHIN BHUTAN, TIMEIS RELATIVE. Your clock is six hours ahead of London, 30 minutes ahead of Calcutta, 15 minutes later than Katmandu. And it’s half the world and 500 years away from wherever you are right now. Imagine Britain during the Elizabethan era: men are wearing white ruffles at the neck, puffy knickers to the knee, dangling swords, hats with brims and feathers. Women wear plunging square necklines, jumbo jewels, leopard skins over silk, and kirtles. Today in Bhutan, men and women still wear what their ancestors wore when Queen Elizabeth began her Golden Age.
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