I have a promise to break. Like any self-respecting writer visiting Bhutan, I solemnly swore on a stack of travelogues to avoid clichd references to Shangri-la, the mountain paradise of James Hilton’s ...

Straddling the eastern ridges of the Himalayas, Bhutan is defined by mountains. Apart from the slender Duars Plain in the south near the Indian border, all of this small, landlocked country is either ...