Our Druk Airlines plane at Paro Airport - Paro Dzong in the background.
The 31 yr. old Bhutanese King, Namgyal Wangchuk, had married 22 yr. old Jetsun Pema on the 13th - less than a week before.
In the afternoon our guide took us on an hour's walk up to a pass at about 3,600 m. to get an initial whiff of low oxygen. Beautiful vertical prayer flags.
The newly weds were in Paro that day receiving gifts from the people. The town was closed to traffic and the population decked out in their best outfits. Sadly, but correctly, we foreigners weren't allowed in to the ceremony.
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