The Road to Kamji

About the Book

It was after my last (fifth) visit to Bhutan that I felt compelled to express my thoughts about the country I had come to love. I knew that words would be inadequate to describe my precise feelings about this most special of places as such deep-seated feelings are almost impossible to express. In the expression, however, I knew that the emotion would come out and I make no apology for that, for this is, in so many ways, a love letter. I shall be forever grateful that I have been privileged beyond measure to travel to such a unique country, to mingle amongst its special people, to experience their smiles, to make friends and to see the mountain vistas that only the Himalayas can provide. It is a very personal journey, a diary of journeys in part, a drawstring for my life as a whole, and my exploration of how faraway places closer to home perhaps spring boarded the leap to the last Shangri-La. In sharing those experiences I hope to inspire in the reader’s mind that final spur needed for them to make this journey themselves. A journey that needs to, and indeed should be taken: the eastern Himalayas are calling!

About the Author

I am a semi-retired businessman, in my mid-sixties, living in the southeast of England and sometimes on the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. I spent most of my insurance industry career in the City of London, and through that connection, have been fortunate enough to travel extensively in Australia, New Zealand and the United States, making many new friends along the way. I am single, long-since divorced, with a very wide circle of family and friends. They support my myriad personal interests, and chief among them is travel, particularly to the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.