Eight days built for two — private lodges, a blessing at a temple, and the quietest corners of the western valleys.
Highlights
Private riverside lodge in Punakha
Blessing at a family temple, arranged privately
Phobjikha valley at dawn
Raspberry orchards and a jacaranda walk
What is included
Private guide, driver and vehicle for the full itinerary
Seven nights in private suites, farm stays and a riverside lodge
All meals, with a private candle-lit dinner arranged
Private temple blessing ceremony for two
All permits, SDF and a surprise gift arranged locally
Professional photography session in Punakha valley
Day-by-day itinerary
Day 1 — Arrival and the drive to the capital Met privately at Paro and driven to Thimphu, where the day is deliberately unstructured. Most of our honeymoon guests take the afternoon at the pool or on a balcony above the valley and meet their guide only over dinner. That is deliberate: the first day after a long flight should not be spent list…
Day 2 — Into Punakha over Dochula The road climbs to the Dochula Pass for the view back across Thimphu, then falls through rice terraces into the warm, wide Mo Chhu valley. Punakha is lower, warmer and slower than the capital, and the lodges here are small enough that privacy is the norm rather than an upgrade. The afternoon is a w…
Day 3 — Chimi Lhakhang and the riverside A private blessing at Chimi Lhakhang, the 15th-century temple of fertility set in a pine forest above town — the reason most couples add a day here. Then a slow afternoon along the Mo Chhu: a picnic basket, a book, and the suspension bridge to the Zangto Pelri hill, where a small temple of the Divi…
Day 4 — Gangtey and the Phobjikha valley An hour up the valley to Gangtey, where the road runs through a green shelf with the black mountains rising directly behind it. From the ridge above Gangtey Monastery the whole Phobjikha valley is laid out below — glacial river, sandbar, wintering cranes in the colder months. It is Bhutan's widest…
Day 5 — A day with nothing scheduled Left deliberately open: a second blessing if you want one, a spa treatment in the valley, a walk to the farmhouses above town where the apple orchards begin, or nothing beyond the lodge. The guide is available and reachable but does not appear unless asked.
Day 6 — Punakha to Paro The return leg west, four hours through Thimphu to the Paro valley, with a stop at the National Memorial Chorten if you have not already seen it. Arrive in Paro in the afternoon for a final evening in the valley: a private dinner, and a quiet hour at the Kyichu Lhakhang as the light leaves the ridg…
Day 7 — Taktsang at first light Walked early, while the forest is still cool and the air is clear, to the viewpoint below Taktsang — the monastery most guests in Bhutan never see from the front, because they arrive after the cloud. Two hours to the Paro viewpoint, an hour further up to the monastery itself for those who want it.…
Day 8 — Departure A morning at your pace, with the car held until you need it. Paro airport is fifteen minutes away and the valley is flat enough for a last walk along the river before you go.