Changangkha Lhakgang

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I would have to concede that if authenticity is your bag then this one is right up there with Egyptian sewers.  Never before have I come across a temple entered through a corrugated iron shack, although there were many temples in Bhutan which had, despite the edict regarding traditional buildings, long since shed their traditional wooden shingled roofs for the rather more prosaic, though admittedly more serviceable, tin claddings.

Apparently significant as a source of blessings for infants, pregnant or aspiring pregnant women, but certainly failed to live up to LP's claim that it "regularly hums with pilgrim activity".  I guess it is all relative, but unless you classify two old biddies and a mangy dog as a crowd, "humming" it was not, at least not during my visit.

Still, given the lack of anything else particularly memorable to see or do in Thimpu, probably worth including in your brief visit, but only if it is at the start of your journey...things can only get better.

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