Greetings!
Early this morning, students and workers walked to school and their jobs in Thimphu. Before breakfast, I walked the streets of the town to view and greet them. More polite young people I have not seen in our travels.
After breakfast at the hotel, we visited a National Memorial for a recent King of Bhutan. A Stupa which is attended by many, exercising their rituals, and we listened to Tandy explain Budhist beliefs.
Our next stop was the tallest sitting Budha in the world, wherein hundreds of thousands of small statues are housed. The site is spectacular, developed at a cost of $100 million, and inspiring. On the way back, we drove to the Takin Preservce, home of the Nations national animal. With a goat's head and a cow's body, it is a strange and unique animal.
Finally, we stopped by the nation's central paper-production company. An all-organic process, it's workers showed us how they take the bark of a local tree, soak it, heat it, compress it, mold it, and dry it into the most useful and beautiful paper stock of all sizes, shapes, and functions.
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