Licensed Bhutanese tour operator · Thimphu
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Evergreen Sojourn is Bhutanese-owned and Bhutanese-run. There is no overseas office, no call centre and no reseller between you and the person who will meet you at Paro.
Between us we guided several hundred trips for other operators before starting this one, and the pattern was usually the same: four valleys in five days, an hour at each dzong, and a great deal of road.
The question we heard most often, on the last evening, was when did we ever just stop. Nobody had built stopping into the itinerary. So we built a company that does.
Evergreen Sojourn runs private trips only. We publish ten itineraries because people need somewhere to start, and we expect most of them to be changed. What we sell is not a route; it is a guide who lives here, a vehicle that belongs to you for the week, and enough time in each valley to stop being a passenger.
The best hour of a trip here is usually the one that was not in the itinerary.
How we plan, and why we leave room
Each one is a choice, and each one shows up in the itinerary rather than only on this page.
We will talk you out of a valley rather than add one. Two nights in Punakha beats one night in Punakha and one in Wangdue, every time.
The Sustainable Development Fee is why Bhutan looks like Bhutan. We quote it as its own line on every costing, so you always know which number is ours and which is the government’s.
We pay above the going rate, we brief guides on your interests before you land, and we do not send a guide to a valley they do not know well.
If you have five days and want Bumthang, we will tell you it does not fit — and suggest what those five days are genuinely good for instead.
We are deliberately small. The person who replies to your enquiry is the person who writes your itinerary, and in most cases they have walked it. Your guide is a licensed Bhutanese guide, has passed the national guiding examination, and is briefed on what you told us before you land — so you are not starting the conversation from nothing on day one.
Our drivers are the other half of the trip and rarely get mentioned. They know which corner of the Dochula has the view when the cloud is only half in, and which tea shop between Trongsa and Bumthang is the one worth stopping at. Listen to them.
Tell us the dates you have. We will send an itinerary that has fewer things in it than you expected, and explain why.
