Today was a full day! Our first stop was the Folk Heritage Museum.

The we visited an Arts and Crafts school. Students choose to study one or two of the 13 disciplines taught here. It is a six year program with 90% dropout rate. Students are 7 years old and up.

Our next stop was Changangkha Lhakhang. Built in the 15th century, it is one of the oldest temples in Thimphu Valley.

After lunch at a local restaurant we visited the Memorial Chhorten, built in 1974 in memory of the third king of Bhutan.

Then we rode the bus into the mountains to the giant (51.5m) Statue of Sakyamuni Buddha. There was a month-long festival in progress here. Hundreds of people seated under canopies and along the walls. There were lots of makeshift tents set up in the vicinity of the temple.

The last stop for the day was the Motithang Takin Preserve, home to several local breeds of animals including the Takin – the national animal of Bhutan.