Chhukha Dzongkhag

Introducing Chhukha Dzongkhag

For travellers Chhukha district effectively consists of the winding road that drops from the mountains through the lush tropical foothills of southern Bhutan to Phuentsholing, the primary land crossing into India. There’s little reason to take this route unless you are headed to or from India, but it’s a dramatic ride and gives you a sense of geographical continuity that flying into Paro doesn’t. En route you’ll pass gigantic ‘Lost World’ ferns that spill into the road and dozens of silver-threaded waterfalls, cascading off high cliffs into the mist.

Along this winding and dangerous 1½-lane highway you may want to point out to your driver the superbly cheesy Indian signboards that remind travellers, for example, that ‘Speed is the knife that kills life’, ‘Speed thrills but kills’, and ‘Impatient on Road, patient of Hospital’. You can’t say you haven’t been warned…

Last updated: Mar 2, 2009