Soaking the healing properties of a hot stone bath in Bhutan

Sometimes, a good travel experience is as simple as a bath, as our writer finds out after her first Bhutanese hot stone bath. Photos: MELODY L. GOH/The Star

A tiny woman wearing a kira, the traditional garb of women in Bhutan, led me to a room filled with steam and smelling of... eucalyptus. Or maybe it was something else. I asked her what it was and she replied but I couldn’t quite understand her so I asked again.

This time I couldn’t hear her and didn’t have the heart to ask again so I just nodded. It smelled pleasant so it didn’t really matter.