After breakfast we drove to Thimphu from Paro, and took about 1 and half hour. We visited the Trashicho Dzong. As today is a public holiday (Buddha descending from heaven to earth to teach again), the national museum, situated right at the top of the Dzong is closed.
We then visited the zoo, and saw the national animal of Bhutan, the Takin. There is this story about the Takin being created by the divine madman. Once upon a time when the divine madman fled to Bhutan from Tibet, the villagers asked him to display some powers so they could believe that he was a real saint. The divine madman asked the villagers to bring to him a cow and a goat, and in front of them he joined these two animals together. Thus the Takin was created, with the face like that of a goat, and its butt like that of a cow!
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