A trek to remember in Bhutan- The Week

It was a hot, fried egg-sunny kind of afternoon when we began our trek from the Sang Cheokar Buddhist College in Paro, Bhutan. The first part is a climb through what was once a cool, shady pine forest.

However, the trees got burned down in a forest fire a few years ago, meaning we were walking through silent, scarred sentinels of pines with jagged, blackened branches, fully exposed to the noon elements.

Around an hour into the trek, we were beginning to question our decision to embark on…