Experience the culture and insights of Himalayan people(Laya -Gasa / Northern part of Bhutan) residing amongst the glaciers. The people here make their living from yaks and sheep. The nomads here know a lot on medicinal herbs and have benefited a lot from cordycep harvesting. This wonder worm (Cordyceps sinensis) has given the nomads an extra income which will eventually lead to preservation of this nomadic culture. The Laya - Gasa Community popularly known as the Scenic  beauty. It takes you through diverse terrain and high mountains (2800ft-17000ft) into the wilderness above the tree lines like meadows land with flowers, juniper and medicinal plants. The valleys and hills sides are shrouded in deep forests of oak, rhododendron,fir and birch and hike over moraines, past glaciers lakes, catching overwhelming views virgin snow cap mountains, herds of sheep, alpine blossoms and home of the welcoming and hospitable nomadic Layabs. It has its own very unique way of dressing, pointed hat w

  One of the objectives of the Bhutan Low Carbon Tourism Project, among others, is to persuade sustainable tourism development and sustainable consumption and production (SCP) in tourism business through development of Low Carbon Tourism products and packages. Over the past three years all efforts have been made to survey, gather comprehensive data from the tourism industry, analyse these data, generate reports (which will be shared with the industry) and create a benchmark for the country in terms of its carbon emission and carbon footprint. This is undertaken to qualify some of the existing as well as new products and services, that need to be carefully packaged, as Low Carbon tourism products and packages. Parallel to these actions, the project also embarked on building capacity of the stakeholders and key players in the industry to carry forward the sustainable tourism development objective and inculcate the practice of sustainable consumption and production