Bhutan Paro Festival

Be a part of the Bhutan Paro Festival Tour packages who will enjoy the fascinating and biggest festival in Bhutan.Festival with colorful mask dances of Bhutan. The Tsechus(Festival) are Buddhist religious festivals where masked dances depicting the events from the life of Padmasambhava(Guru Rimpoche), the eighth-century Nyingmapa Buddhist teacher, are staged with colorful dances with a different meaning. The dances are performed by trained monks wearing ornate costumes and impressive masks.

Paro Festival 2022: The date starts from

Last day: Thongdrel. Before sunrise, a huge cloth piece of Guru Rimpoche is hung on the wall to receive blessings.

Festival in Bhutan

Festival in Bhutan with a complete Bhutan tour package will be an extraordinary tour to Bhutan. Bhutan Paro Festival is an important best festival. Festival or Tshechu is a religious festival meaning “tenth day” held annually in various places in Bhutan. It is the birthday of Guru Rimpoche the second Buddha. in fact, the exact date of different festivals in Bhutan varies from place to place.

Festivals in Bhutan are grand events where the common people gather in monasteries, temples, and fortresses gather to witness religious mask dances, Bhutanese cultural shows and finally get blessings.

It is believed by Bhutanese that everyone must attend the festival and receive blessings and wash away their evils. The mask dances performed have each meaning.  The mask dances are mostly performed by monks and sometimes by village men.

3 Best festivals in Bhutan

3 Best festivals in Bhutan that you may choose before you travel to Bhutan. There are many Bhutan festivals that are held on every 10th Day of the Bhutanese lunar calendar in different places in Bhutan. When we consider the data collected from the Tourism Council of Bhutan we consider the following Festivals in Bhutan. The biggest Festival in Bhutan is Paro Tsechu. The turn of tourists is huge.

1. Paro Festival
2. Thimphu Festival
3. Jambay Lhakhang Drup Festival.

Bhutan Tour Itinerary for Paro Festival

Day One Arrival Paro :

During the journey to Paro, if you are on the window side, you will experience from the left-hand side of the plane, breathtaking view of Mount Everest, Kanchenjunga, and other famous Himalayan peaks, including the sacred Chomolhari and Mount Jichu Drake in Bhutan. On your arrival at Paro International Airport, The representative of the Bhutan Himalayan Holidays, your tour guide will receive you and escort you to the hotel.

Day Two: Paro Festival Full Day.

Full-Day Paro Festival 2020 and go around Paro downtown.
Overnight: Hotel in Paro

Day Three: Paro Festival Full Day.

Full-Day Paro Festival 2020 and go around Paro downtown.
Overnight: Hotel in Paro.

Day Four: Taksang Day Hike

After breakfast drive for 15kms and reach the base of Famous Tiger’s Nest “TAKTSANG” Monastery and hike up which would take Two Hours up and approximately One Hour down. Stop at Taktsang Tea House “Cafeteria” for the refreshment of Tea & Coffee. Taktsang is at 2900mts. Hike for another half an hour and you reach the Great and Magnificent Taktsang where you will be greeted by the monks who live there and Special Bhutanese Butter Tea will be served with Snacks.

Visit the most important monastery where the Guru Rimpoche was flying on a Flamming Tigress from Singye Dzong in eastern Bhutan to here and meditated for Three Months and flourishment of Buddhism in Paro started from 8th Century. Walk downhill and drive to Drugyal Dzong and on the way enjoys the view of the Taktsang Monastery, also known as “Tiger’s Nest temple”. Near the Drugyal Dzong, if the sky is clear we can see the Mt. Chomolhari in the background. Overnight: Hotel in Paro.

Day Five: Paro-Thimphu-Sightseeing

The drive to Thimphu will take roughly Two Hours. Thimphu is the capital city of Bhutan since 1974. Punakha used to the capital city of Bhutan before that.
For the first one hour, you will follow the Pa-Chu (Paro River) and reach Chuzom where the Thimphu River meets the Paro River and forms Wang-Chu (the Chu means Water, River or Stream). Chuzom is a four-direction motor road junction where one road leads to Thimphu, one to Phuentsholing the border town to India, one to Haa valley, and one where you drove from Paro. It will take another one hour from here to the Capital city, Thimphu.

Check-in the hotel and after a short rest visit National Memorial Stupa, built-in 1874 by Royal Queen Mother and dedicated to the father of Modern Bhutan, the Late His Majesty the Third King of Bhutan. The Memorial Stupa, built-in 1974 by the Royal Queen Mother and dedicated to the Father of Modern Bhutan, The Third King of Bhutan. This Tibetan & Bhutanese Architecture mixed Stupa has got three different sects of Buddhism such as Gongdu on the Top floor, Drukpa Kagyud on the Middle with Second Buddha figure facing the Sun Rise and on the Ground Floor, it is the Phurba.

Day Six: Thimphu Sightseeing

Visit the Post Office with a Money exchange as the bank is next door. Lunch in Town, after lunch drive to BBS Tower, to get the magnificent picture and view of Thimphu and you can also see our Queens Palaces. Visit Thimphu Mini Zoo where you can see our National Animal “TAKIN” which has a head of a goat and the body of a cow, believed to be made by great Devine Madman in the 16th Century.

Visit National Library, School of Thirteen Arts and Crafts, National Institute of Traditional Medicines. Visit Thimphu Tashi Cho Dzong, the office of the King and the Throne Room and also the Summer Capital of Monastic Body lead by His Holiness the Je Khenpo (Chief Abbot) who spend six months here during summer and move to Punakha for winter for another six months.

Overnight: Hotel in Thimphu.

Day Seven: Thimphu-Punakha

After breakfast drive to Winter Capital for the Monastic Body, Punakha at 1300m. One hour drive reaches you to Dochula Pass at 3150m, where you can see and enjoy the Eastern Himalayas in a Panoramic View and best picture time for the group of Bhutanese Style of Stupas, as there are 108 Stupas built by Her Majesty for the well being of the Nation and Love Live His Majesty. It descends to Punakha and Wangdue at 1300mts which will take another two hours. Visit Historic and one of the most beautiful Punakha Dzong built in 1637 by Great Zhabdrung Rimpoche who unified Bhutan in the 17th Century. Overnight: Hotel in Punakha.

Day Eight: Punakha Sightseeing

After breakfast walk to the famous Devine Madman’s Monastery the Chhimi Lhakhang “No Dog Monastery” built in 1499. Today it is very popular because couples who are married for so many years and don’t have children but always desired to go there and get blessed from the wooden Phallus and in another Nine months the wife gets pregnant. We will visit the monastery and meditate and a picnic lunch will be served outside the monastery on the lush green ground. After Lunch drive to Punakha and visit the beautiful and legendary Khamsum Yuley Namgyal Monastery built by Her Majesty the Queen mother of our Crown Prince. Overnight: Hotel in Punakha.

Day Nine: Punakha to Paro.