Five days on the first ridge of the Druk Path, close enough for a short trip
The full Druk Path takes eight days, which is more leave than most people have. This version walks the first two stages to Jele Dzong and Jangchulakha, camps one ridge short of the high lakes, and comes down through Phajoding to Thimphu on the fourth day. The camp crew, ponies and cook are the same ones we send on the longer treks, so the nights are proper rather than improvised, and the walking stays inside four to five hours a day.
Fit walkers with a short window who want one real night in the mountains
Meet the guide and trek cook, check boots and sleeping bags, and walk an easy hour along the Paro Chhu. Dinner is the briefing for the two days on the ridge.
Meet the ponies above Ta Dzong and climb through blue pine and fir to camp below the ridge, with Jomolhari appearing between the trees on the last stretch.
Follow the ridge through dwarf rhododendron with the snow peaks on the right, past yak herder pastures to the camp at Jangchulakha. Tea arrives as the tents go up.
The trail drops through pine and juniper past the Phajoding monasteries, then from Motithang into Thimphu for lunch and a hot shower. The evening road takes you back to Paro.
Breakfast, a last walk through Paro town, and the transfer to the terminal.
Travel insurance strongly recommended: cover mountain medical care, altitude evacuation, and Paro weather flight delays. Read the travel insurance note
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