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Notes:

On each departure morning, unless informed otherwise, please have your bags packed and leave them in your room when you go down to breakfast, lock the door and deliver the key to the front desk.

Each person is invited to bring a crisp new $100US bill for foreign exchange on the first day when we land in Paro. We make this foreign currency exchange available so you won't have to stop at a bank, our lead guide will have an envelope with $100US worth of local money called Nultrum, often referred to as Rupees since Nultrum and Indian Rupees trade at the same value and are mixed together. If you want to look up the current value of Nultrum just look up Indian Rupees as the trade currency.

Bottled water is provided, everywhere—each car has a case of it in back. So when you leave the car to go to your room please take your open water with you. Don't forget! Don't brush your teeth with tap water because it is right out of the stream after passed through a settling tank.

Sometimes you may not feel like stopping for tea and coffee or lunch, but please remember that your guide and driver need a brief pit stop, too.

There are very few proper bathrooms or toilets along the national highway so learn to say to your guide and driver, "I need to find a bush." There is toilet paper in all cars. He will find a trail leading down into the woods, just watch out for wild bears.

There are no proper bathrooms or toilets along the national highway so learn to say to your guide and driver, "I need to find a bush." There is toilet paper in all cars. He will find a trail leading down into the woods, just watch out for wild bears.

Wi-Fi has been available in Bhutan for just a couple of years now and is available in all hotels, some only in the lobby and some in the rooms. With some hotels it is intermittent so please be flexible and hope for the best.

The National Highway is under construction for widening but work is only allowed at night so as to not block traffic during the day. You should expect just a few delays but you should also be aware that some parts of the road are quite bumpy. (Although not dangerous—our drivers are the best in the business, have a special license for tourism, drive cautiously and are mature family men who know every inch of the road.) My guess is that by the time this tour departs the road construction will be 90 percent finished.

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