Is the country Bhutan cheap?
You have to pay a mandatory tariff of around US$280 a day to be part of a package tour, as the country only allows a certain number of tourists a year to minimise the impact on its culture and environment. And its infrastructure as one might expect is not as geared for tourism as other Asian countries. You can still travel independently, but that would have to be on top of the tariff. I’ve seen that Coke and Pepsi are banned, as are plastic bags. So, I’m guessing you’d be hard pushed to find pizza. Unless you find someone to make it for you at a pinch if you do get severe withdrawal as the ingredients are not complicated. Tibetan food to which Bhutanese is related is interesting but very limited. They’re not big on vegetables. Their idea of a vegetable doesn’t stretch much beyond potatoes. Meat (usually lamb or mutton) is boiled in water with some butter. There’s butter tea which is savoury and almost a soup and basic meat dumplings cooked in several ways. Tsampa (roasted barley that i
