Jambay Lhakhang Drub: This festival is held in Bumthang annually around end of October or sometimes beginning of November; and is held to honour the deeds of Guru Rimpoche, an Indian saint who brought Tantric form of Buddhism in Bhutan. A variety of masked and traditional dances are performed. This festival is one of the most important in Bhutan and the high light of this festival is the Fire Dance, a dance performed at night to bless infertile women for bearing children...

This festival includes masked dances; and wears spectacular costumes made of yellow silk or rich brocade, often decorated with ornaments of carved bone. For certain dances, the monks wear masks which represent fearsome deities, animals or skulls of human being. This festival takes place in the first month of the lunar year and ends with ‘Serda’, a magnificent procession which re-enacts an episode of the war against the Tibetans in the 17th century....

Tangbi Mani Festival - This is a four day festival performed in Tangbi Lhakhang, located in Tangbi village. This festival is organised by the people of three vilages viz.Tangbi, Goling & Kharsath and displays the rich cultural heritage of thi sancient Lhakhang. It will be an opportunity to come in closer contact with the local folks and their way of living, beliefs and more. People from all over the villages come here to witness the festival dressed in their best costumes. It is believed that this festival...

This festival includes masked dances; and wears spectacular costumes made of yellow silk or rich brocade, often decorated with ornaments of carved bone. For certain dances, the monks wear masks which represent fearsome deities, animals or skulls of human being. This festival takes place in the first month of the lunar year and ends with ‘Serda’, a magnificent procession which re-enacts an episode of the war against the Tibetans in the 17th century...

Tsechu or the religious festivals are usually the main tourist attractions for visitors. Thimphu & Paro Festivals accounts for over 50 per cent of the total arrivals; and certainly Paro Tsechu is the most popular one with its unique unfurling of the world’s biggest Thangka or Thongdrel ceremony. The pageantry is a unique experience and that nothing you have ever seen before...

Paro Tsechu: Tsechu or the religious festivals are usually the main tourist attractions for visitors. Thimphu & Paro Festivals accounts for over 50 per cent of the total arrivals; and certainly Paro Tsechu is the most popular one with its unique unfurling of the world’s biggest Thangka or Thongdrel ceremony. The pageantry is a unique experience and that nothing you have ever seen before...

Ura Yakchoe - Ura is a beautiful village set amidst a pristine highland meadow across the Thumsingla Pass. The village has retained its traditional character and holds its own festival that offers an insight into lives of the rural Bhutanese.
The Festival of Ura is about an old woman; sitting outside her house, she had a mysterious visitor, a lama who asked her for a glass of water. While she got inside home and came back with a glass of water, the lama had vanished leaving a sack...

Thimphu Tshechu: Tshechu are religious festival honoring Guru Rimpoche, the patron saint who brought Buddhism in Bhutan in the 8th century. He is regarded as the founder of the Nyingmapa sect of Buddhism, the "oldest school" of Lamaism which is still followed very popularly. His biography is highlighted by 12 episodes of the model of the Buddha Shakyamuni’s life. Each episode is commemorated on the “Tshe Chu” meaning on the 10th day of the Bhutanese calendar...