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Bhutan - The fulfilment of a long-held dream! (3)

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Day 3: Thimphu! So there we were, in Bhutan's capital! A capital city of a country which has zero traffic lights. As a loather of traffic lights, this was another aspect of the country that has always fascinated me. I always used to wonder how amazing it must be to live in a place like this, and now I would get to experience it first-hand! And this is how the traffic is managed! Even the booth for the traffic police is pretty!  PC: Rashmi Patwardhan During my extensive research, there were quite a few places of interest that showed up and I really had to pick and choose so that we could visit places that we found interesting, rather than going to the most visited, touristy kind of places. After much deliberation, we decided we would visit these: - Taschhicho dzong - Buddha dordenma - Motithang Takin preserve - Folk museum - Coronation Park - National Library - Tango monastery (This would be visited on Day 5) Sums up the places we visited! Of course, I sketched i