Richard and Paddy's rally to Bhutan

The Thunder Dragon Rally. This blog describes Richard and Paddy's rally to Bhutan in November 2015 in Paddy's 1937 Buick

Thursday, 5 November 2015

Why it takes so long to get anywhere!

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Our porter

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The new skipper

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Sundown in the Sunderbans

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Have Paddy and I found ourselves on a Saga holiday?

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Boating in the Sunderbans

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Sunderband bungalows

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  • ▼  2015 (181)
    • ▼  November (166)
      • The rally is over!
      • 2km to go
      • 8km to go and we all grind to an Indian halts 4 la...
      • Local government leaders
      • The local leaders
      • Our third festival
      • And the roads go on!
      • Extraordinary weavers
      • An incredible young lady
      • And so the roads go on
      • Just so sweet!
      • And still be friends
      • They may be young monks but they can still mess about
      • It's a hard life in eastern Bhutan
      • The local lama
      • A smaller festival for the nomads
      • Paddy meets a local clown!
      • Monks going for a roam
      • Lovely people
      • Lovely people
      • Lovely people
      • Lovely people
      • Challenging to the border
      • Bhutan has never failed to amaze and challenge
      • The last few days
      • Visiting the Dzong in among at
      • Car 9 team amongst the prayer flags. God knows tha...
      • Arrival at Mongar
      • From Bumthang to Mongar
      • The festival at Mongar
      • A young Buddhist monk taking time out
      • The festival at Mongar
      • The festival at Mongar
      • The festival at the Dzong in Mongar
      • Amazing road to Mongar
      • On the road to Mongar having launched our prayer f...
      • New prayer flags for the Kings birthday
      • Best show for months!
      • The road to Bumtang
      • Eating deep fried chillies in Bumtang
      • Photobomb in Dzong Bumtang
      • Paddy having a snoop in Bumtang Dzong
      • Another Dzong in Bumtang
      • Rebuilt temple at Bumtang
      • The wood burner factory in Bumtang
      • Road to Bumtang
      • Road to Bumtang
      • Bill getting pulled out
      • Road on cliff!
      • Narrow roads
      • Lunch stop
      • Rock slides
      • Bill stuck
      • Stanley on the road to Tronga
      • What a road!
      • Putting up pylons in Bhutan
      • Amazballs!
      • Things getting messy!
      • Dinner
      • Wow!
      • A challenging road
      • A challenging road
      • Filling with fuel
      • Tunnels in the mountainside
      • Building the dam
      • Journey south
      • The river
      • The Dzong
      • Inside the Dzong
      • Inside the Dzong
      • Early morning visit to the temple
      • Beautiful coutryside
      • Rest day
      • Thimphu to Punakha
      • Golf at The Royal Timphu golf club. Take note of P...
      • Challenging road today!
      • Returning from school
      • Xavier and I outside theYak herders tent
      • The local mill
      • My farmhouse bed
      • Bhutanese most recent stamps - real ones!
      • Old gentleman outside Timphu market
      • The food marketTimphu
      • Time to back off a little
      • Our kind hosts
      • Our bedroom
      • The loo
      • My bed. It's just a piece of wood underneath
      • Paddy arriving in the village, porter at hand
      • Our accomodation
      • Paro
      • Lovely people
      • Han to Timphu
      • Wonderful day
      • Lovely people
      • A busy, busy day
      • Street food lunch of cheese Momo
      • Beautiful people
      • High street Paro (there are only two)
      • Just like another local
      • Just like a local
      • The first summiteers
      • Wow!
      • Arriving at the monastery
      • Tigers Nest. Up there really!
      • Tigers nest
      • View from our hotel in Paro
      • from the border to Paro
      • Prayer flags
      • The suspended bridges have been here since 1400's
      • Signs providing advice and regrets are everywhere ...
      • You cannot imagine the geography
      • Xavier and Ines are on the bus but staying with us
      • Bhutan boarding school celebrating the old kings b...
      • First fill up in Bhutan
      • The tea factory
      • The Salvation Army
      • At the tea garden
      • Packed tea
      • The factory
      • Immigration
      • Tea being packed
      • Grading the tea
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      • Bhutan
      • Bhutan
      • Thank god we are not travelling by bus
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    • ►  August (2)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  June (7)
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