Wedged into the mountainous folds between India and China, Bhutan is a special brew. It’s Shangri-la incarnate, the last Himalayan Buddhist kingdom, a high, misty, sequestered world of chanting monks and monasteries perched among mountain peaks, where the Gross National Happiness index takes the place of Gross Domestic Product as the yardstick of national achievement.
Bhutan protects its unique cultural and natural…