Overview (Haa Summer Festival)

Unlike other festivals in Bhutan, Haa Summer Festival fall in spring, align perfectly with district’s favourable weather conditions and seasonal delights during this time of the year, including the peak bloom of various herb and flowers. The festival showcased vibrant custom, nomadic traditions, and local delights through demonstration, cultural programmes and sporting events.

Tourists can also experience the night at one of the many village homestays and enjoy the hospitality of the local people of Haa Valley. Along with the Haa festival, you will also be doing some Bhutan cultural tour and visiting interesting places.

Highlights of the Haa SummerTshechu (Festival)

The Haa Summer Festival is event celebrated once in a year by offering valuable cultural and spiritual highlights that attract both local and tourists. Some of the key highlights of this festival are as follows:

• Vibrant customs: The visitors explore to different customs like the art of Yak Shearing and wool making. The visitors can also watch the art of weaving a Yak hair into a traditional tent demonstrated by the local craftsmen.
• Local Cuisine: The visitors can also experience and witness the religion cuisine like local cheese along with other agriculture produce to visitors.
• Traditional program: Experience unmatched lives and tradition of Bhutan with uplifting celebration of traditional living cultural with mesmerizing rhythms and graceful movement performed by local people.
• Masked Dances: Haa Summer Festival offers beautiful lively religious masked dances performed by the monks and people of Haa valley.
• Yak Riding: Unlike other festivals in Bhutan, visitors got to witness and enjoy yak riding as springtime majestic yaks remain in the accessible valley below, adding to the festival’s charm and providing commercial opportunities for the people.
• Community Gathering: This festival is convenient for highlander of Haa as they got a chance to bond with their loved ones, enjoy cultural programmes and immerse themselves in the festivity before they migrated to summer grazing place.