Bhutan has long been called the happiest nation on Earth. Here’s what life is really like in the tiny kingdom
ABCIn the eastern edge of the Himalayas, the Kingdom of Bhutan is one of the most isolated nations on the planet. Bhutan's Prime Minister Lotay Tshering has acknowledged successive governments may have failed these people and, with such growing discontent, it has put the country's happiness philosophy into question. Since June last year, 1.4 per cent of Bhutan's population has been granted a visa to go to Australia — a huge proportion that's growing, in a country of just 760,000 people. "I've gotten to calling it this heavy miasma around Bhutan, where we don't know what's going to happen, this unpredictable air is there and it doesn't feel good," Mr Phuntsho says. "Australia is really proud of the fact that we're the education destination of choice for young people from Bhutan," Assistant Foreign Minister Tim Watts says.
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