DOs and DON'Ts in Bhutan Dos: Please remember to take off your sunglasses and hat while entering temples, monasteries, chortens, dzongs, or crossing a bridge. You can check with your guide if you need to take off your shoes when entering temples, chortens, monasteries, and dzongs. Remember to keep your phone quiet and not to speak loudly when you are above the places. Remember to turn clockwise around the sacred  Don'ts: Do not wear shorts while entering religious sites such as temples, chortens, dzongs, monasteries, and public buildings. This could be considered disrespectful. Do not photograph in dzongs, chortens, temples, and monasteries. Do not touch the monks' robes, paintings, and other ritual objects. Do not smoke in public places. Watch out for designated smoking areas. Throw garbage only in specific locations. Please do not throw anything into the lakes, do not disturb the water, because almost all lakes are considered sacred, and deities live in their depths.