Enjoying tea in a Bhutan private home – Bhutan Tour

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Blonde went to Bhutan with a small group (6) of ladies on a cultural trip. Luckily, our guide had buddies in a town near where we stayed one night and they had invited us to come to their home for tea. You can barely take a look at someone in Bhutan without getting handed a cup of tea so that wasn't unusual however we were delighted to have the opportunity to go into a Bhutan personal home. You cannot tell much from the outside of the homes other than if the household seems flourishing or not and even that can be tough for Westerners. We were informed that this was the home of a "rich abundant" household of potato farmers.

We all traipsed self-consciously into the house horrified that we would dedicate some unknowing gaffe. Our hostess was the 18 years of age daughter of the family. She was really shy and in the beginning said that she spoke little English, however she certainly comprehended it all, so it was most likely shyness that made her reluctant to speak English. Trainees in Bhutan find out English in school. This girl was 18 and had to quit school after the 9th grade to look after the home. She has several younger brother or sisters and her moms and dads work.

Obviously lots of females her age get wed but when asked if she had an interest in getting marriage she laughed a lot, waved her hands, shook her head and said "no". (The minimum age for women to wed is 16. The Bhutanese do not practice dowries and they divide their land similarly among kids and children.).

We all rested on the floor to have the tea served to us. The girl had gone to a great deal of bother getting a tray of good china cups together and making a number of kinds of tea. It appeared odd to us to sit on the flooring but that is exactly what Bhutanese individuals do in their houses and, when they aren't being observed by nosey travelers, a lot of them eat with their hands.

But, much more impressive than the tea, was the mounds of buckwheat noodles she produced us! There is a small wooden press, a "putta" in the kitchen and it's used to produce the noodles. To see the procedure click on this link. The brief variation is that you put the dough in the little eliminate location where the girl's hand is. Then you press or rest on the long deal with and noodles come out the bottom and fall under a bowl (unless you forgot to put one there).

While we consumed we discovered that this girl's family has lived in this house for- take note here- 23 generations! Obviously they do not want to "flip" their realty the method many American do!

We saw that this home, which was clean, was heated up with a wood stove as were most of our hotel spaces in that location. But this household likewise had a television in the corner of the kitchen. It was an older design and not in any great location of honor. Television was unlawful in Bhutan up until June of 1999. We were informed that there's only one Bhutanese TELEVISION station and otherwise individuals can primarily just get Indian daytime soap so that may be why the TV looked a little lonesome!

Buddhism is the religious beliefs of Bhutan and every Bhutan private home has some sort of shrine. This was a substantial space and well embellished. Clearly they dedicated a great deal of area and time to their faith in this home. Numerous places have really modest shrines-- but they have them!

In addition to the kitchen, shrine room and this room (above) where the family can congregate they also had 3 or 4 bed rooms which we didn't see. The stairs as much as the shrine room and bed rooms were really high, more of a ladder than stairs, so they should not drink much, if any, alcohol in this home!

As we were leaving we saw a box that had actually recently been provided and included an electrical cleaning machine. This would be a considerable high-end in a little town so we were truly believing the "abundant abundant" classification the family had actually been offered.

When we walked back through the town we had much more of gratitude of the size and condition of the house we had gone to. The tea (although we were just able to consume about 10% of the buckwheat noodles) was a highlight of the trip. I 'd love to know exactly what our person hosting idea of us- or at least I believe I would!

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