- It is the only country in the world that measures Gross National Happiness and the people seem very proud of it.
- Both UK and US plugs work in a lot of the hotels.
- Most Bhutanese men wear the traditional dress called gho and the women kira. When going to school or church they are required to wear it.
- Older Bhutanese men and women chew a disgusting thing called beetlenut – it smells awful and makes their teeth look red and bleeding.
- As you drive past houses you can see chillis drying out on their tin roofs.
- Always have toilet paper in your pocket – there’s rarely any in the bathroom.
- There are ornate entrances at random places along the roads:
- Road signs are very entertaining in particular those on the road telling you to be safe and the anti smoking and drugs ones.. oh yes and smoking is illegal.. my kinda country! Examples of some of the road signs: “Bro be Mr Late not late Mr”… “Speed is a knife that cuts lives”… “After rum driving no more fun”… “First smoking, next drugs – say no to tobacco”..
- There are police/emigration checkpoints at a number of bridges within Bhutan!
- They have a lot of vertical prayer flags as well as the regular horizontal kind – these horizontal ones seem to be unique to Bhutan.
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