Entering the Tiger's Nest of Bhutan

[ellisonz]

Leah McLennan, AAP Travel Writer, AAP February 3, 2012, 12:58 pm

All this struggling - climbing with leaden legs and oxygen-sapped lungs up a mountain - will result in much merit, my guide assures me.

"We need to accumulate merit to reduce suffering in the next world," Tsewang says.

"Each time I go I collect merit but afterwards I have a cigarette so I lose some."

There are many ways to increase merit, Tsewang says, through meditation, moral discipline and the three hour hike up to Tiger's Nest.

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One day...

[riverwalker]

1. one of those places

where phrases like "life altering" or "trip of a lifetime" or "culture shock" don't really express what Bhutan is. For me it was like getting struck by lightning, nothing since remains the same.
I did the hike up to Taktsang ("Tigers Nest&quot my first day in country, and forgot I still had on my Nicotine patch I wore for the long flight the day before, darn near killed me by the time I remembered.
Taktsang is seeped in myth and magic and even the air you breathe is electric.

[ellisonz]

2. Jealous.

Take me with you next time!