Darkarla Gewog (
Dzongkha
Dzongkha (; ) is a Sino-Tibetan language that is the official and national language of Bhutan. It is written using the Tibetan script.
The word means "the language of the fortress", from ' "fortress" and ' "language". , Dzongkha had 171,080 n ...
: དར་དཀར་ལ་) is a
gewog (village block) of
Thimphu District
Thimphu District (Dzongkha: ཐིམ་ཕུ་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Thim-phu rdzong-khag'') is a dzongkhag (district) of Bhutan. Thimphu is also the capital of Bhutan and the largest city in the whole kingdom.
Languages
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Bhutan
Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainous ...
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Dagala Trek
Dagala is known for its thousand lakes trek, a six day trek along the ancient trails from
Thimphu
Thimphu (; dz, ཐིམ་ཕུག ) is the capital city, capital and largest city of Bhutan. It is situated in the western central part of Bhutan, and the surrounding valley is one of Bhutan's ''dzongkhags'', the Thimphu District. The ancient ...
to
Dagana. The trails were once used by Daga Penlops and porters for transportation between Dagana and Thimphu.
[Palden, Tshering. “Along the Ancient Trade Route Genekha to Dagana Trek.” Kuensel Online, 3 June 2017, https://kuenselonline.com/along-the-ancient-trade-route-genekha-to-dagana-trek/. ] The popular trek does not go to Dagana.
There are numerous pristine lakes across the trails and yak herders can also be found along the way.
References
Gewogs of Bhutan
Thimphu District
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