• Bhutanese call their home ‘Druk Yul’ which means ‘the Land of the Thunder Dragons’ because of the extremely powerful storms which constantly roar in from the Himalayas
• Thimpu is the only capital in the world without traffic lights. In fact when traffic lights were installed the people objected and the city reverted back to the use of white-gloved traffic police
• The first foreign tourists were allowed into Bhutan in 1974
• Bhutan is the world’s only carbon sink, that is, it absorbs more CO2 than it gives out

Interesting people:

When Sonam Choki was born in 1982 in Bhutan, she was born with a disability. One of her hands was missing from just below the elbow down. But that didn’t stop her from pursuing her passion for music. Her father in particular encouraged her to listen to his art rock record collection, and she particularly grew fond of listening to Black Sabbath and Motley Crue. When Sonam was just five years old, she told her parents that she wanted to be a pianist when she grew up. Years later, she became the world’s first one-handed pianist to play in the Boston Symphony Orchestra.