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If you are invited as a guest you can use the public transport. Your host will have to go to the Home Ministry (in Trashicchu Dzong, Thimphu) to get a travel permit. It is just a pink slip of paper which is attached to your passport. You must bring two passport size photos for this permit. The permit also specifies to which districts you are allowed to travel in. Write down as many districts as possible on the application. Don't put the districts of Ha, Samtshi or districts in the southern border area on the application if not necessary. A permit for those districts takes a lot of more time to get. Some of them (Like Ha) you will never get.
If you are going further than Wangdi Phodrang or Punakha, don't think that you can manage with a permit valid less than a week. You will need at least seven days. If you go to Trashigang, seven days is just enough time to get you there and back, sitting in the bus from 5 am to 8 pm everyday. Try to go for a permit valid for 14 days at least. Be sure that you have renewed your visa before you go. It can be done in Thimphu for 500 nu.
The Yangoon stop on the Paro-Dhaka-Bangkok flight is withdrawn. It's a pity that this interesting route was withdrawn.
Johan Westman (Dec 98)
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