Serena Chopra takes the reader into an extraordinary journey through the living
landscape of this fascinating country — its powerful monasteries, kingdoms,
mountains, rivers, rites, rituals and ceremonies. She shows how Bhutan, nestled
between India and China, and which remained shrouded in mystery, has evolved
into a distinctive culture with a political, economic, and a social fabric
unique to this calm and peaceful nation. She has a rare gift of interpreting the
simple and ordinary and translating it into a reality. The real value of the
book comes not from the places and facts she describes but from her decision to
base her journey as an inner