High surrounding mountains seem to seal you in. A monastery with white walls is perched on a cliff. James Hilton s novel Lost Horizon is likely to come to mind. There are but a few television sets in all the country. Newspapers there's a weekly, but it can't be found readily outside the capital.
Radio broadcast are limited to a few hours daily.
Nor are there juke boxes, pool halls or neon lights. There are but 2,000 kilometres of roads and less than 5,000 vehicles. The country's biggest expenditure is maintaining the roads. Bhutan is a country that functions without the rest of the world. It's self-supporting, we were told.