First Snow Public Holiday in Bhutan

*The photograph above was taken on February 5th, 2018 in Fukui City.

 

In Fukui City, we usually have so much snow and it's very cold during winter, but it's nothing like the usual winter this year. As a person from Fukui City, I feel that it's strange not to have snow but to have the warm weather around this time of the year.

 

 

This is a photograph that the poster girl of Bhutan Museum Fukui, Ms. Sonam Choki sent to me. She told me that they had the first snow of the year in Bhutan, and she took the photograph.

In Bhutan, when they have the first snowfall of the year, it becomes the national holiday. Most of the public places such as schools, government offices, banks and so on are closed.

She thought that she was going to have a day off. On that day, it was a day of her Japanese lesson and she was supposed to go to the Japanese school. In the school, everything is scheduled based on Japanese calendar, so the school wasn't closed.

 

On February 5th, it was the Bhutanese New Year, Losar. The date of the New Year changes every year.

 

*The 2 photographs above were taken when Ms. Sonam Choki stayed in Fukui City last year.

 

I asked Ms. Sonam Choki to send me photographs of what she was doing on the New Year.

 

 

She said that she enjoyed eating with her sister. She didn't go to her parents house this year because she was very busy with her school and she stayed in Thimphu where she goes to school. She said she would enjoy it more if she was in her hometown.

 

I wish everyone in Bhutan very Happy New Year 2019!

 

T.F