Brightly painted Norbu Yangphel offers the usual tourist buffet upstairs and has a couple of cosier rooms downstairs where you can try juru jaju (river moss soup); fresh in August and September, and dried the rest of the year (order in advance).
Norbu Yangphel Hotel
Bhutan
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