The Druk Path Trek

Tour Overview

The Druk Path Trek has two possible starting points. You can chose which route you want to take and also depend on what agreements have been made with the horse owners. The traditionally the trekkers start from Dambji, near a gravel pit on the eastern side of the Do Chhu at 2300m. Most groups opt to save 140m of climbing, starting at a trailhead outside the gate of the National Museum at 2470m.

The trek is usually feasible from late February to June and from September to December, although snow sometimes closes the route in late autumn and early spring. Days are normally warm, but nights can be very cold and you should be prepared for snow in winter. Avoid the monsoon season of July and August.

It is possible to shorten the trek to four days, but you must be able to walk for more than eight hours a day. With shorter plan you would camp at Jili La, Jimilang Tsho and Phajoding, arriving in Motithang on the morning of the fourth day. We can also make it possible to modify the Druk Path Trek into four days trek in reverse direction, starting from the youth centre in Motithang and finishing by hiking down from Jimilang Tsho to the road head at Tsaluna in the Bemang Rong Chhu Valley. If you are a masochist you can even race through the trek in a single day. An old punishment for Bhutanese soldiers was a forced one day march along this Druk Path Trek route from Thimphu to Paro.

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