The middle stairway is for the richest...but all stairs lead to the tax collector

One of many monk-against-white-wall moments

Our room with a view at Kichu Resort Wangdue - which was in the middle of nowhere.

Just another blind corner

Monkeys at the start of our day - a good omen according to Rinzin and Namgay

Pobjhika valley kids

The kids were always happy just to see their pics

The start of a beautiful hike through Pobjhika Valley at 2900m

The woods are lovely, dark and deep?

Highlander awaits

Yummy 3C paste - chilly, coriander and cheese - farmhouse lunch

Best lunch - home cooked

Farmer's wife

Farmer's family

Home made rice wine...in gasoline container

Farmer's an ace at carving too...part of the altar

Hip, cool and trendy monks

These bends were as bad as they look

Mindu from Druk Asia & Rinxin at The Orchid,Thimphu

Thimphu traffic

Metta Resort, Paro

Paro Tsechu - they came in their Sunday/Tsechu best

Hill tribe ladies

Finishing touches

He would've got fab shots - he'd set up his tripod exactly where I would've