Trip Description

This festival takes place in the remote nomadic community of Sakten village in eastern Bhutan. The village lies on the Merak Sakten community-based trek and the brokpas – the nomadic people residing here have their own unique culture, lifestyles and language that is unlike anywhere else in Bhutan. The Sakten festival is also very unique mainly focusing as a ritual to propitiate their local diety Aum Jomo.

Following the success of the Nabji-Korphu Community-based trek, the Government up-scaled the much awaited Merak-Sakteng region into a community-based trek. The Tourism Council of Bhutan had commissioned the feasibility study of this trek to our CEO (who is also a Sustainable Tourism Consultant for the government of Bhutan. The trek was designed based on the findings of the feasibility study that he had submitted to the government and also undertook various impact assessment studies of introduing tourism to the region. Therefore, this trek holds dear to Bhutan Travel Club and we are proudly a specialist in this region.