Paro Ringpung Dzong, Bhutan

For most visitors to Bhutan, Paro Dzong will be either the first or the last dzong that they visit in the country. This is due to it's proximity to Paro Airport, the country's only air-link with the outside world. For us it was the first dzong and one to remember. As our plane landed and taxied along the runway my eyes swivelled to hunt out the big white block on the hillside which I knew from my pre-trip research would be the dzong. ==What's a ...
...==The History of Paro Dzong== Construction of the current dzong started in 1644 and was part of a mass dzong-building movement across Bhutan. It's a fair bet that if you guess 17th Century when you see a dzong, you'll probably be right and equally fair to say that it's hard to date them just by looking as they all share the same design elements of massive whitewashed walls with a thick brown band near the roof-line and because everything whether ...

koshkha 06.03.2009 · Read full review
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