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Outer Voices treks with the Queen of Bhutan

Bhutan is a land of prayer flags and happiness. But people are people, and human suffering, including domestic violence, is as prevalent here as it is anywhere. Queen Ashi Sangay Choden Wangchuk sees it as her job to create happiness for the people of her kingdom. She takes her job seriously – so much so that she treks into the most remote corners of the country to meet the people who she would otherwise never see – to find out about their lives, strategize about health care, and to help end domestic violence. Outer Voices accompanied her into a remote unmapped corner of this tiny Himalayan kingdom.

Please join us on this incredible trek – take a listen to our documentary, “The Queen’s Trek”, aired on Hearing Voices. And also take a listen to our short features, created for Radio Netherlands and World Vision Report.

(We’re not entirely sure why us, but we are honored to be the only foreigners to ever be invited to accompany a Bhutanese monarch on a trek, and the first journalists ever to interview Queen Ashi Sangay Choden Wangchuk.)

[ Listen to The Queen's Trek ]