Zhongar Dzong (For reading pleasure)
"Let's not forget some of the History" This Dzong is the Bhutanese equivalent of Count Dracula’s castle. The present-day eerie tales that abound about the ruins of the Zhongar Dzong are as spectacular as its origin and history. At a cursory glance, the spine-chilling claims of the people in the nearby villages’ seem real. The setting is truly other-worldly: the roughly six-acre confines of the castle with its gaunt reddish brown walls, fleetingly visible through a dense undergrowth of ferns and giant creepers, is out of bounds for the humans, lest misfortune visit upon the intruder or his family. Girding a mound that protrudes from the breast of a thickly forested mountain, the Dzong is otherwise left all alone, preserving its ancient secrets within its weather-beaten walls. But not so long ago, the fortress and its chieftains played a pivotal role in the kingdom’s power politics, the legacy of which has defined the history of eastern Bhutan and the nation as a whole...