Bhutanese Roads

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The only thing to be said in favour of Bhutanese roads is that at least they drive on the right side (that is the left hand side) of the road as is the case in all civilised countries. Everybody knows that it all originated from knights of yore needing to prevent themselves becoming entangled with their swords...hence the Americans never quite got the point! Other than that, the roads are appalling except where they are bloody awful, their driving skills are about as good as a dyslexic squid on ecstasy and the road surface as smooth as a baby's bottom after it has been dusted...with a twenty megaton nuclear device. You may survive rock falls (they still haven't quite got to the bottom of that gravity thing) and being nudged over the edge of an unguarded precipice by an oncoming Tata truck with all the spatial awareness of a Chelsea tractor driver on a school run... At least they drive slowly so you may not die instantly in the event of a collision, but they also drive slowly which means it takes forever to get anywhere and sitting in a queue of traffic behind a stinking diesel truck is not my idea of fun. There are some bits of quite pleasant meandering country lanes, both of which are shown below.