The Sublime Ura Valley & Vibrant Ura Yakchoe Festival | Visitbhutan.com

Check out our website at http://www.visitbhutan.com/ Our Social Media handles: Instagram -   / visitbhutan_   Twitter -   / visitbhutan_   DISCLAIMER - We urge users not to embed these videos and utilise them for other such purposes without owners’ permission because these videos are not meant for redistribution and are the property of Bhutan DMC and The Unknown Planet. For related queries, please contact [email protected] Located at an altitude of 3200m in the breathtakingly wonderful province called Bumthang and surrounded by forests of spruce, pine, larch, fir, juniper, bamboo, rhododendron, the fascinating and one of the largest clustered village of Ura in central Bhutan exudes charm through its traditional farmhouses, Buddhist temples, stupas and fluttering prayer flags. Ura is named after Guru Padmasambhava, from the land of Ugyen (Oddiyana) who is credited to have brought Buddhism to Bhutan in the 8th century. He is said to have first passed through this village on his way to the court of Sindhuraja in Chagkhar. Since then, the village uses to be called Urbay, the hidden land of Ugyen and people in neighbouring valleys still call Ura by its ancient name. It is, however, the second coming of Guru Padmasambhava that the village remembers and celebrates through Yakchoe, the grand annual festival of Ura.