Roadwork’s and Landslips.

Yesterday morning was spent catching up on my emails, as it was the best Internet since Kolkata. We looked around Thimphu before having lunch ready for the short 66k afternoon drive to Punakha.

This drive took us over a pass at 3100metres as we crossed into the next valley. The top of the pass had 108 Stupas, 108 is a very special numbers in Buddhism.

This entire road is a construction site with Indian workers widening the road, all the road construct in Bhutan is done by Indian workers that live in Shanty towns beside the road.

This piece of road is very important, as it is the only road connecting the East and West of Bhutan. During construction the workers are having a constant battle with landslips as they make the old cuttings wider for the new road.

With the Himalayas being the youngest mountain range on Earth, so much of the mountain are made from very unstable and loose rock which just keeps falling down with rain and slight tremors.

Drive 66k drive was a 2 1/2 hour events for us with the roughness and all the one way bits past landslips.

Our Hotel for the night is very very nice and will be home for the next 2 nights, while we visit some temples and some of the group go white-water Rafting.