{"id":56,"date":"2009-04-20T15:20:17","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T23:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=56"},"modified":"2009-10-15T09:29:12","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T17:29:12","slug":"spotlight-on-bhutan-by-phil-ershler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/20\/bhutan\/spotlight-on-bhutan-by-phil-ershler\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight On Bhutan (By Phil Ershler)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"156\" height=\"194\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-left: 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/photos\/bhutan\/bhutan2.jpg\" \/>People ask me \u00e2\u20ac\u201c &#8220;Why go to Bhutan?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Every trip doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to involve carrying heavy packs and doing all the work ourselves.\u00c2\u00a0 Once in a while, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nice to just go trekking.\u00c2\u00a0 With our experienced Sherpa and Bhutanese crew, the team members can relax a bit and simply concentrate on enjoying the people, the country and the experience.\u00c2\u00a0 No need to set up tents, carry heavy loads and worry about camp chores such as cooking and cleaning.\u00c2\u00a0 Members carry only what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s needed for any given day.\u00c2\u00a0 What a pleasure.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"171\" height=\"128\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/photos\/bhutan\/bhutan1.jpg\" \/>Additionally, treks like the one we do in Bhutan give us an opportunity to share the experience with a spouse, friend, son or daughter who may not have the mountaineering skills required for many more involved trips.\u00c2\u00a0 Add to all this the fact that a country like Bhutan sees a much smaller number of tourists than many other locations.\u00c2\u00a0 And talk about exotic, I can&#8217;t think of many locals higher on the &#8216;exotic&#8217; scale than Bhutan.\u00c2\u00a0 Add it all up and you&#8217;ve got the makings for a great adventure (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/bhutan-tr2005b.shtml\">read about a past trek here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Thinking about going yourself? See IMG&#8217;s upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/bhutan.shtml\">Bhutan Dates<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/ershler.shtml\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/ershler.shtml\">Phil Ershler<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/bhutan-tr2005b.shtml\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People ask me \u00e2\u20ac\u201c &#8220;Why go to Bhutan?&#8221; Every trip doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to involve carrying heavy packs and doing all the work ourselves.\u00c2\u00a0 Once in a while, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nice to just go trekking.\u00c2\u00a0 With our experienced Sherpa and Bhutanese crew, the team members can relax a bit and simply concentrate on enjoying the people, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bhutan","tag-snow-anchors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}