Word: dzongs
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...late afternoon. Home to just 40,000 people, the capital scarcely qualifies as a city. Brightly painted facades and narrow lanes stretching up to the wooded slopes of giant mountains reinforce the feeling of a medieval mountain village. King Wangchuck rules his people from the imposing Traashi Chhoe Dzong, an 18th century monastery that surveys Thimphu from the banks of the Wangchhu River. Only under the cover of darkness do his subjects let their hair down and change into Western clothes...
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