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At one point we ran into several men in a truck as it drove off the main road toward a quarry in the woods.
At another point we saw a cowherd with his herd, talking on a cell phone. Road work was being done by women without any equipment.
From where we stood on the Pass we could see three snow-packed peaks in the distance when the clouds moved away.
We were almost alone on the narrow winding road. Occasionally, we came across a convoy of cars carrying a funeral party. “Death is big here,” our guide commented, “birthdays are not.” A few miles outside of Thimphu a few people were standing on the shoulder of the road waiting for transportation.
Alongside the Stupas and flags, on the Dochula Pass there was another remarkable sight: an election announcement board. This day it was empty; it did not announce anything.
In a shop elsewhere two women demonstrated how hand-made paper was produced from tree bark with the help of a wood-fired kiln.
The patron of the Museum is Queen Ashi Sangay Choden Wangchuck. She is the youngest of the four queen mothers. Her husband is the Fourth King. He had one wife before marrying three sisters all at once and in the same ceremony in 1979. (The public ceremony was not held until October 31, 1988.) His second wife is the mother of the incumbent Fifth King and was ranked third (after his son and husband) on the list called “The Royal Government of Bhutan.” The Prime Minister came only after her on that official list.
Another oddity, the Takin. This is the national animal of the Bhutan, a cow-goat hybrid which experts have not yet been able to relate to any other animal
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