Venue: Chorten KoraChorten-Stupa

Total Duration: 15 days

Other places: Western, Central and Eastern Bhutan.

Entry: Paro

Exit: Guwahati, Assam, India

Unlike other festivals, this is one where the essence is circumambulation and not filled with mask dances.

It is a festival remembering the ultimate sacrifice made by a princess during the construction of the chorten (stupa). The princess was a pious Dakini Princess of the Dakpa tribe from neighboring Arunachal Pradesh, a district in India, who offered to entomb herself alive, as the Yeshe Semba, to meditate on behalf of all beings. Of the two major circumambulation events, the first is the Dakpa Kora (circumambulation of the Chorten by the Dakpas, which is held on the 15th day of the first lunar month. This is followed by the Drukpa Kora (circumambulation of the Chorten by the Bhutanese).

For this package, you can either enter from Guwahati, Assam (India) and exit from Paro or enter from Paro and exit from Guwahati.