Festival dates & Things to do
The Royal Highlander Festival will be organized in Laya this October. Driven by the underlying goal of making the highlands a vibrant and thriving economy, the festival aims to promote the sustainable livelihood of highlanders, showcase highlander’s innovation, and exhibit the highlands as a pride of Bhutan.
The Highland Festival is organized in Laya every October.
The Royal Highlander festival was first held on October 16, 2016, to commemorate the birth of HRH the Gyalsey, 400 years of Shabdrung Rimpoche, and Guru Rinpoche’s Rabjung (60-year cycle) birth year.
Duration: 9 Days
Duration: 9 Days
Duration: 9 Days
Duration: 9 Days
Laya, Gasa
The festival brings together highlanders from other parts of Bhutan to exchange values, knowledge, skills, and best practices related to highlands and yak farming.
Visitors can witness the traditional offering of Buelwa (Gift offering) with Auley (traditional epic poem/song recitation tradition originating from Zhabdrung Rinpoche days) that began during Zhabdrung Rinpoche’s reign in showing loyalty and respect by the community of Laya village is being offered for the dynamic and visionary leadership of our successive monarchs during the festival.
Layaps will present a variety of cultural activities. There will be competitions on highland animals such as Yaks, horses, and Mastiffs, as well as competitions on traditional music and dances.
The event includes a variety of vendors selling anything from local yak food to highland technology, highland agriculture technologies, medicinal herbs and plants, and more.
This is an annual event in which runners compete over a distance of 26.2 miles for the full marathon
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Chhukha is a hot, wet region of dense Sub-Tropical forests located in South Western Bhutan.
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This annual Dakpa Kora (circumambulation of the Chorten by Dakpas) festival held on the 15th
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The Dochula Druk Wangyel Festival was established in 2011 in commemoration of His Majesty
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