Simtokha Dzong

Thimphu District · Bhutan

Simtokha Dzong, Bhutan
Photo: Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
March to May
Budget
$$$
Coordinates
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Regarded as the oldest surviving fortress-monastery in Bhutan, built in the 1620s to guard the approaches to the Thimphu valley. It now houses an institute for traditional Dzongkha studies.

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