Every Journey is a Story
Jamyang Tourism is a Bhutanese tour operator working out of Haa Throm, in the quietest valley in the west of the kingdom. Your own guide, your own vehicle, and an itinerary written from scratch for your dates.
Haa opened to foreign visitors only in 2002. It has one main street, two temples with a legend attached to each, and a pass at 3,988 metres standing between it and everywhere else.
That is where we are from, and it shapes how we plan. Fewer places, longer in each, a guide who grew up nearby, and a driver who knows which side of the pass the cloud sits on in October. Everything is private, and everything is written from scratch for the dates you give us.
We are a Bhutanese company, run from Haa, and we handle the whole administrative side of a visit: the visa application, the Sustainable Development Fee, hotels, permits and any internal flights.
Six routes, each a starting point. Tell us what you want more of and we rewrite it around you.
Paro · Haa · Thimphu
Cross Chele La at 3,988 m into the valley that only opened to visitors in 2002 — barley fields, blue pine, two ancient temples and the people we grew up with.
Tailor-made
Quotation by email
Paro · Thimphu · Punakha
The three western valleys, unhurried: the capital, the pass with 108 chortens, the great fortress at the river junction, and the Tiger’s Nest to finish.
Tailor-made
Quotation by email
Paro · Festival valley · Punakha or Haa
A tshechu is not a performance for visitors — it is the year’s most important religious gathering, and the dances have been danced in that courtyard for centuries.
Tailor-made
Quotation by email
Your itinerary is written in Haa, not bought from a wholesaler. The guide who meets you at Paro is Bhutanese, licensed, and travels with you the whole way.
Your own vehicle and guide from arrival to departure. If the light is good and you want another hour on the ridge, you get another hour on the ridge.
Village lhakhangs, farmhouse kitchens, a weaver's loom in Haa — the parts of a day in Bhutan that come from knowing the family, not from booking a ticket.
Visa application, the Sustainable Development Fee, hotels, permits and internal flights, confirmed in writing before you pay anything.
A journey here is not a list of monuments. It is a valley, a family, a pass in the cloud, and the conversation you have on the way down.
Two and a half hours from Paro, and almost nobody goes. That is the whole point.
Haa sits at about 2,670 metres along the Haa Chhu, hemmed in by forested ridges and watched over by Ap Chundu, the valley’s protector deity. Its two oldest temples — Lhakhang Karpo, the white, and Lhakhang Nagpo, the black — are said to stand where a white dove and a black dove came to rest.
In July the valley holds its summer festival on the Haa Chhu meadows: yak herders come down from the high pastures, there is archery and local food, and it remains a village gathering rather than a spectacle.
Bhutan is small on the map and large in practice — every valley is a mountain pass away from the next.
The quiet west, and our home valley.
The gateway valley and the Tiger’s Nest.
A capital with no traffic lights.
Warm, low, and holding the finest fortress in Bhutan.
A glacial bowl where the cranes winter.
Four valleys of the oldest temples in the kingdom.
What changes is the light, the crowd and what is flowering. Tell us your month and we will tell you honestly what it will be like.
Rhododendron and magnolia on the passes, clear mornings, and the big spring tshechus in Paro and Punakha.
The monsoon greens everything and clouds the peaks. Rain usually falls at night, and Haa holds its summer festival in July.
The clearest skies of the year, harvest in the fields, and the Thimphu and Jakar festivals.
Cold, bright and very quiet. Cranes are in Phobjikha, and the low valleys of Punakha stay mild.
Dates, numbers and what you would like it to feel like. A sentence is enough to start.
A day-by-day plan with hotels named and a full quotation, usually within one to two working days.
Most itineraries go through two or three drafts. That is the point of the process, not a failure of it.
Flights advised, hotels confirmed, visa applied for, guide assigned. Then all you do is arrive.
No booking fees, no hidden extras and no vague answers. If a rule changes, we tell you before you pay.
Bhutan asks most international visitors for a Sustainable Development Fee of US$100 per adult, per night. Children aged six to twelve pay US$50 and under-sixes are exempt; Indian nationals pay Nu. 1,200. The current rate is confirmed through 31 August 2027.
A one-off, non-refundable application fee of US$40 per person. Apply directly on the Department of Tourism’s online system, or let us submit it with your booking — we do it either way, at no extra charge.
Paro is Bhutan’s principal international gateway. Drukair and Bhutan Airlines fly in from Delhi, Kolkata, Guwahati, Bagdogra, Kathmandu, Dhaka, Bangkok, Singapore and Dubai, with seasonal flights from Bodh Gaya. You can also enter overland at Phuentsholing, Gelephu or Samdrup Jongkhar.
Send a rough idea — a month, a number of nights, and what you would like the trip to feel like. You will get a written itinerary and a full quotation back, with nothing to pay while we work it out.
