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A vacation trip to the state of Kerala in Southern India, can be the perfect interlude for the Bhutanese mid-winter blahs.  Kerala offers winter sunshine, a balmy 30 celcius daytime, and night time no less than 20.  It was sounding pretty attractive, especially after this year’s desperately cold December. Genuinely friendly people, beaches,  traditional ayurvedic medicine and massage , fresh seafood, coconuts , bananas  and cashews, yoga, serene ... (more...)

I call the British Virgin Islands “Bhutan in the Caribbean Sea” British Virgin Islands is my home away from home nowadays.  Imagine Punakha immersed in the ocean, and you’ve got the picture of the Islands.  Steep mountain peaks become individual islands, blanketed by the very same subtropical flora of Punakha – only more vibrant and lush in a climate tempered by the Caribbean Sea. Islanders call their home  “Nature’s Little Secrets.”... (more...)

Don’t go to extremes. When you say you don’t know, and you will replace it, those are two extremes At the end of the last June mid-term exam I put all the papers in order, and was about to leave the classroom, when it became apparent the key to the classroom was missing. It disappeared, vanished into thin air. Frantically searching through folded answer papers, up and down every nook and cranny of the room, even lifting floor boards ~~ it was... (more...)