We are young and healthy and are so pumped up for our twelve day hiking tour in the Himalayan Mountains of Bhutan, set to start Monday. Bhutan is a small zen-like nation of 740,000 people, nestled between the behemoth China to the north and India to the south. Thimphu, the capital, is the only capital city in the world with NO traffic lights. Druk Air, with its 15 pilots, has the ONLY pilots in the ENTIRE world, who are certified to land at the very dangerous Paro airport, because it is surrounded by the Himalayan mountains. I may have to pop a Valium or two before getting on that flight.
Oh wait!!! With less than forty eight hours to our departure for Bhutan, a phone call from our agent in Canada early this morning, advised us that our trek has been CANCELLED! An American who traveled from India into Bhutan, has brought Bhutan its first case of the Coronavirus, so the government has closed its borders, effectively for the entire time we would have been there.
Are we disappointed? HELL yes! Upset? NO, because it is what it is. It is out of our control. What are we looking at doing? GoWay Travel, our agents, are looking for other options for us. We will stay put in Bangkok for now. Are we coming home? No way! We didn’t come this far to run home with our tail between our legs. Stay tuned! The adventures continue!
GOOD NEWS? Our luggage should arrive this morning. 😃
PS: For any naysayers out there, we had no option of cancelling our trip before leaving Canada. Our insurance did NOT cover changing our minds, nor the threat of a pandemic. So we had no choice but to set out on this adventure. No regrets here! YOLO! Qui ne risque rien, n’a rien!
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