from $2,500* per person	11 Days	April
Comfort accommodations		Exertion level: 3
Operator: Responsible Adventures		12 people max

Ura Yakchoe - Ura is a beautiful village set amidst a pristine highland meadow across the Thumsingla Pass. The village has retained its traditional character and holds its own festival that offers an insight into lives of the rural Bhutanese.

The Festival of Ura is about an old woman; sitting outside her house, she had a mysterious visitor, a lama who asked her for a glass of water. While she got inside home and came back with a glass of water, the lama had vanished leaving a sack. Curiously, she opend the sack to find a Statue (relic). Eversince, this relic has been passed on from generation to generation, which is now owned by the descendants of the woman. This festival is organized annually and the relic is displayed to the public. You will see locals dressed in their finest clothes who have walked from miles around to attend the festivities. They come and watch masked dances, pray, and feast. While the underlying purpose of the festival is spiritual, dances are more often like plays, stories where good triumphs over evil and historical events especially encompassing the life Guru Rimpoche.