I was offered coffee or tea but just opted for water.


The double bed dwarfed by the massive room.


The view of Clock Tower Square from my window.


And lunch at a local restaurant with spicy chicken and some locally grown red rice, a Bhutanese staple.


After lunch we headed out for some sightseeing. At our first stop on the edge of the city, Motithang Takin Preserve. A Himalayan serow feeding at a trough.


The Preserve is home to a herd of Takin, a goat-antelope that is also the national animal of Bhutan.

They were quite an unusual looking animal, looking like a cross between a yak and a deer. Unfortunately all the Takin were munching on grass quite far away and I couldn't get a decent photo with my wide-angle lens however (Photo below by Kyaw Thu Oo, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0).