I was first in Bhutan in the Winter of 1974/75. This country represents to many a kind of ecological Shangri-la–and it is, in many respects–a definitively Buddhist, carbon-neutral country with ...

Although it measures only 110 miles from the north to south and 200 from east to west, Bhutan - called by its people Druk Yul, "the Land of the Thunder Dragon" -- is home to a remarkable variety ...

Here in Bhutan's Pobjika valley, the cranes are protected. To kill a crane carries a sentence of life imprisonment. Pairs mate for life and the arrival of a solitary bird is a sad sight.