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Jomolhari Mountain Festival Trek – From USA to Bhutan

If you find yourself smiling with the gentle breezes around you, than you are actually with the nature!

Jomolhari Mountian Festival takes places at the Jomolhari’s base, the highest mountain of Bhutan. It is initiated by the community for the conservation of endangered snow leopard and other rare species of animals like himalayan blue sheep etc. Jomolhari Mountain festival is held around 24th of October and 25th of October every year starting from year 2013. This Jomolhari mountain festival is quite unique than other annual festival. In this festival you could see lot of interesting and unique activities of the locals like, Dances preformed by the students, villagers, horse riding competition, pulling the rope, shot-put competition and gathering of the nomadic people with their yaks and animals. 

Day 01 | Arrival in Paro International Airport – Thimphu excrusion – Paro | Altitude 2200 meters
after the arrival in paro international airport, we have taken them for city sightseeing in Thimphu. In the evening we came head back to Paro. Evening we stroll around the Paro town and checked in to our hotel. 
 
Day 02 | Paro Tigress Nest Hike
We started the hike to Tigress Nest early morning rite after our quick breakfast. It is always good to start early morning hike to tigress nest monastery because you have to bit the strong sun rays, it will be less people and less horses, you have to maintain a very slow walking pace, and you can take lot of beautiful pictures of the Tigress Nest Monastery. If you reach in the morning you can get better space for meditation inside the monastery. We also stopped in the half way cafe on our way back for tea and snacks. Lunch we had in Organic Resturant in Paro. After lunch, we stopped refresh ourselves with the best cozy coffee conner called Champaka cafe in the heart of Paro town. In the late evening we started our drive to reach our first camp site in Gunitsawa. It is just the drive upto the starting point of your trek. Here our trekking crew has well organised our dinner, tea and every thing in detail. 
Day 03 | Gunitsawa – Thangtangka | Overnight Altitude 3500 Meters | 810 Meter Accent and 10 Meter Decent 
after our early breakfast, we started our trek with just our light day pack, like camera, sunglasses, walking stick, bottled drinking water, sun scream, hand gloves, warm woolen hats and warm jackets. The it is mostly a switchback kind of trails following the river in Paro. The clolourful vegitaion in Autumn makes our day quite easier. It is long 8 hours walk to reach Thangtangkha. Here the night is quite cold depending upon the weather, if the sky is clear and if you see the stars than that night is chilly cold, but it is cloudy night than it’s quite better. 
 
Day 04 | Thangtangka – Jangothang | Jomolhari base camp | Altitude 4200 meter
Today with the early breakfast, we started our trek to Jangothang, the Jomolhari base camp, where we could reach for the lunch in the festival venue after 5 hours of walk. It’s quite tiring but because of the the festival it refreshes everything. We could sit around with the locals there in the festival venue and eat with them. We got lot of beautiful portraits of locals with their beautiful costumes. 
Day 05 | Jangothang – Thantangka 
Today we were really blessed with the clear beautiful blue sky which made our day hike worth to Tshophu the twins lakes with the mind blowing views of the Highest mountain of Bhutan. Jomolhari and Jichudarky. We came back for our lunch in the Jomolhari base, Jangothang and retrace way back to Thangtangka again. 
 
Day 06 Thangtangka – Gunitsawa – Uma Paro
Today we had easy descend down for 7 plus hours to reach the end point of the trek. This trek was so much enjoyable and blessed with the perfect weather, we could see the interesting festival called jomolhari mountain festival. 
 
Day 07 | Paro – Bangkok
In the morning after our leisurely breakfast at Uma Paro, we bit farewell to our guest in Paro international airport.