Hey Ash! It sounds like you had an incredible trip. Thank you for sharing. Bhutan and New Zealand are at the very top of my list.

BTW. while I know they focus on "Gross National Happiness," which I think is spot-on, for some reason, they are far from the happiest nation in the world. Been meaning to dig into this data further https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report.

Likely something about the methodology of this report isn't correct, but I also don't think they would move to number 1 from 96.

I wrote a similar piece a few months back https://medium.com/mind-home/bhutan-the-model-nation-for-the-world-5350ff05e057.Glad to see more people talking about Bhutan. We need to spread the word :)