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Many people have called it Shangri-la, a magic land removed from time and space, and, indeed, Bhutan is another world — unlike any other third world country they have ever experienced.
Friday night, March 5 at the Rappahannock Library in Washington at 8 p.m., Lois Manookian, Bill and Linda Dietel will try to share with words and slides and a variety of Bhutanese arts and crafts some of the magic they discovered in their two-week journey to the “Land of the Thunder Dragon”, as Bhutan is often called.
Bhutan, tucked between Tibet and India, is the last surviving independent Buddhist monarchy. It is the size of Switzerland with less than one million people, 90 percent of whom exist by
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