Elderhostel Cancels trip to Bhutan
20 July 2009
Letter arrived from the Road Scholar Division of Elderhostel to the effect that they were canceling their 2 week trip to Bhutan. The trip had been further "Subleased" to Above the Clouds Trekking and their brochure stated that the first day of the trip we were trekking from 7000ft to 10,000ft to view the most sacred of the monasteries- Taktsang Goempa- or Tiger's nest monastery where Buddhism came to Bhutan in the form of Guru Rinpoche who flew in on the back of a tigress. I thought maybe I had signed up for a major stress test or heart attack. So, the hunt began for an alternative trip and I found one by OAT but it was entitled the Heart of India with an 8 day pre-trip to Bhutan. Trip would be more docile but did not include any of the Buddhist festivals- but it did coincide with the time off I had asked for the original trip. Also no single supplement.
Letter arrived from the Road Scholar Division of Elderhostel to the effect that they were canceling their 2 week trip to Bhutan. The trip had been further "Subleased" to Above the Clouds Trekking and their brochure stated that the first day of the trip we were trekking from 7000ft to 10,000ft to view the most sacred of the monasteries- Taktsang Goempa- or Tiger's nest monastery where Buddhism came to Bhutan in the form of Guru Rinpoche who flew in on the back of a tigress. I thought maybe I had signed up for a major stress test or heart attack. So, the hunt began for an alternative trip and I found one by OAT but it was entitled the Heart of India with an 8 day pre-trip to Bhutan. Trip would be more docile but did not include any of the Buddhist festivals- but it did coincide with the time off I had asked for the original trip. Also no single supplement.
posted by DT at 10:36 AM
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