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Continuing with the ‘Birding in Bhutan’ series. You can read the Part-I here After a pretty good haul on our pit stop at the Dochula Pass we headed towards the Phobjika Valley, the winter home of the beautiful and revered Black-necked Cranes. The route was tough and bumpy to say the least. Roads were pretty much non-existent. All through the way we saw a lot of road laying work going on in full vigour....

Bhutan, the kingdom of the dragon was my destination early this year, with my friends Kesava and Arun. Beautiful place and such lovely people. It was winter and it was very cold, no surprises there :-) This was to be kind of a touristy outing. Wildlife wasn’t the main agenda. We did have a few specific targets in mind with respect to birds. However, our itinerary was more about visiting many of the tourist hotspots in western Bhutan....