Where in the world
do you have a car driver slow down to a halt, to let you finish taking a picture from across the street.
Where in the world
do you have women managing the night desk alone in a small hotel, in a smallish town.
Where in the world
do you have women taxi drivers doing solo cross-country drives.
Where in the world
do you have young women single handedly manage resto-bars on the side of a highway, in the middle of nowhere.
Where in the world
do shop owners offer you free toffees, just because you visited them.
Where in the world
would you find the owner of a mid sized lodge chopping wood, for the winter, alongside the paid laborer.
Where in the world
would you find royalty traveling unescorted. No wailing sirens, no motorcade.
Where in the world
would you find traffic working efficiently without any traffic lights at all. Across the whole city. Make that country, actually.
Where in the world
would you find someone drive into the center of town and go into a shop while the car stands out there, unattended and keys in the ignition.
Bhutan.
A bicycling trip across western and central Bhutan. October 2013
First published on January 9, 2014
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