A Bhutanese travel agency, planning online
We are a Bhutanese team of senior guides and drivers working across all twenty dzongkhags. Every private trip includes your visa filing, Sustainable Development Fee handling, handpicked valley lodges, and a licensed local guide who knows every pass and village kitchen.
DoT Licence #1054820 · Based in Bhutan · Working online across time zones
Why travel with us
Glide Into Happiness Tour & Travel is new by choice. A short calendar means each journey is planned properly, answered directly, and changed when the mountains, the weather or your energy ask for it.
Based in Bhutan · Working online across time zones
Itinerary first
Every journey starts as a day-by-day plan with real drive times, walking hours and rest built in. You read the whole route before you decide anything.
Direct communication
You write to the people who plan and run your trip. No call-centre queue, no handover between departments, no resold inventory.
A smaller calendar
We take a limited number of departures each season, so guides, vehicles and lodge rooms are confirmed properly rather than improvised.
Costs you can read
Sustainable Development Fee, visa, hotels, guiding and transport are listed separately, so you can see what each part of the journey costs.
Ways to travel
Each style is a starting point. Any of them can be shortened, slowed down or combined with another.
Journeys
Every route below is operated privately for your party, with a licensed Bhutanese guide and one fixed per-person price.
Trekking & AdventureFull 8 day itineraryView journeyFive camp nights along ancient trading ridges from Paro to Thimphu via Jimilang Tsho and Phajoding
Private land package
FromUSD $3,000
per person, twin share
Honeymoon & CelebrationFull 6 day itineraryView journeySix private days for two across Paro, Thimphu and riverside Punakha
Private land package
FromUSD $2,630
per person, twin share
Cultural ImmersionFull 7 day itineraryView journeyOur classic seven-day route across Paro, Thimphu, Dochula Pass, and warm Punakha
Private land package
FromUSD $2,800
per person, twin share
Luxury & SignatureFull 7 day itineraryView journeySeven days between Paro, Thimphu and Punakha, sleeping in the valley lodges we rate highest
Private land package
FromUSD $6,760
per person, twin share
Family & Multi-GenerationalFull 6 day itineraryView journeySix days of short drives, farm animals and warm valley floors for all ages
Private land package
FromUSD $2,380
per person, twin share
Festival & TshechuFull 7 day itineraryView journeySeven spring days built around Rinpung Dzong masked cham dances and the pre-dawn thongdrel scroll
Private land package
FromUSD $2,950
per person, twin share
Luxury & Signature
Departures built around the best lodge rooms in each valley, with a guide and driver who stay with the same party from arrival to departure, longer meals and fewer road hours.
How it works
No payment is taken online. You confirm only when the plan and the price are right.
See the full processShare your dates, party, pace and what you want from Bhutan. A short message is enough to begin.
We send a day-by-day outline with drive times, walking hours, lodge options and a clear price.
Move nights, swap valleys, add a festival or a rest day. We revise until the route fits.
Your guide meets you at Paro airport, and our team stays reachable on WhatsApp for the whole journey.
When to travel
Pick a window and we will tell you honestly what the weather, roads and festival calendar look like.
Rhododendrons on the passes, clear mountain views and Paro Tshechu. Mornings are cool, afternoons mild, and trekking conditions are at their kindest.
March · April · May
Festivals in this window
Our commitments
These are working commitments, not slogans. If we fall short, tell us directly.
Valleys
Seven valleys cover most of what people come to Bhutan for. Pick one to see the altitude, the drive from Paro and the months that suit it.
Paro Dzongkhag
Broad terraced rice fields, seventh-century Kyichu Lhakhang, and the pine climb up to cliffside Paro Taktsang.
Bhutan guide
Visa rules, the Sustainable Development Fee, seasons, etiquette and how to reach Paro. If something is missing, ask us and we will add it here.
Honest answers on money, paperwork, seasons and how the planning process works.
All 22 questionsInternational visitors pay USD $100 per person per night, and the Royal Government sets the rate through 31 August 2027. Indian passport holders pay the regional rate of INR 1,200 per person per night. Our team files the SDF for you before arrival, and every quote shows the exact number of nights and the total fee in dollars or rupees.
Every international visitor except Indian, Bangladeshi, and Maldivian passport holders needs a visa. The fee is USD $40 per person, one time. We submit your application to the Department of Immigration once your SDF payment clears, and approval normally arrives within three to five working days. You only need to send us a clear passport photo page and confirm your arrival date.
You message us on WhatsApp or send the enquiry form on any tour page. A planner in Paro replies with a written itinerary, an all-in price for your dates and group size, and the payment options we accept by bank transfer. Nothing is charged on this website, and there is no card field anywhere on it.
March to May brings rhododendrons, clear peaks, and the Paro Tshechu. September to November offers crisp air, harvested fields, and the Thimphu and Bumthang festivals. December to February is cold but quiet and clear, and June to August is green monsoon country with fewer visitors. We will tell you honestly if your dates fall in a wet window.
Every quote covers the SDF, visa fee, licensed guide, private vehicle and driver, accommodation, all meals on international packages, monument entry fees, and route permits. International airfare, personal insurance, alcohol, laundry, tips, and single room supplements sit outside the quote, and we list both sides line by line.
No card is taken anywhere on this site. Once we agree the itinerary you settle by bank transfer to our Bhutanese company account, and we issue a written receipt carrying your booking reference. Some guests send the transfer in two parts, and we hold your hotel rooms while the first part clears.
Start here
Tell us your travel month, party size and preferred pace in the trip builder, or write to us on WhatsApp.
