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Tiger's Nest

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Length:
1.5hrs
Maximum Altitude: 3150m
Level of Difficulty: Strenuous

Walkopedia rating

Beauty
30
Natural interest
 13
Human interest
 15
Charisma
 30
Negative points
 (3)
Total rating
 85
Note: Negs: quite a bit is a dullish trudge at altitude in scrubby trees
Walkopedia rating85

Bhutan

Tigers Nest - William Mackesy 2008

Key information

 

Famous walk to Taktshang Goempa (Tigers Nest), Bhutans best known (if not finest) and most dramatically situated monastery, clinging to  cleft in a sheer cliff, 900m above the Paro valley. An inspiring walk to a tremendous place.

 
The initial trudge up the hillside, through scrubby trees but with increasingly fine views across the fertile valley toward the surrounding hills, can seem like a bit of a tedious slog, especially if you are newly arrived at this altitude, but the first glimpse of the monastery dispels all doubts.
 
The Lonely Planet has helpful information on this trek.


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