Air Druk

Tourists to Bhutan, besides paying the $250 day tariff, must enter and exit the country one way by road and the other way by air.
There is only one airport, at Paro, with only one runway served by one airline, Druk Air. (You may recall that Druk is the name of the Buddhism that is the state religion of Bhutan.)
Druk Airlines owns only 2 airplanes and leases a third. Only 8 pilots are cerified to land at Paro Airport.
Tomorrow morning we fly from Paro to Calcutta on Druk Air.
We did not merely arrive at the airport at 5:15 am for our 7:00 am flight. We got up to have our baggage ready at 3:15 for a 3:30 departure so that we could see the unfurling at the Paro Festival. The ceremony began at 2. The banner painting of Guru Rimpoche had already been unfurled when we climbed the hill. But the ceremony was still taking place as we waited to board our plane. We watched it on TV.
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