Ozen Resort
Twelve villas at three thousand metres on the forested ridge between Paro and Thimphu.
A villa resort in the pines at 3,090 metres — fireplaces, full kitchens and a meditation hall, with Jichu Drake on the horizon.
Ozen is built differently from the valley hotels — twelve stand alone villas spaced through the pines at 3,090 metres on the high ground off the Paro to Thimphu road, with snow peaks including Jichu Drake on the horizon and a seventeenth century prayer wall on the property’s old path.
Each villa runs to a fireplace with the wood already laid, heated rooms and bathrooms against the altitude, generous glass to the ranges, and a full kitchen with a family lounge below — which is why groups and families take to it the way couples take to the small lodges. A dedicated meditation hall with gongs sits among the villas, and the spa works with hot stone baths infused with local herbs.
The Druk Path itself begins from this ridge, which makes Ozen an unexpected trailhead: in rhododendron season you can walk out of the resort and into one of the great treks of the Himalaya.
Ozen solves a problem few Bhutan properties address: a family or a group of friends who want to be together in the evenings — one lounge, one kitchen, one fire — rather than scattered down a hotel corridor. The altitude gives it the big mountain views the valley floors cannot, and I am fond of any place where a working meditation hall sits closer to your bed than the reception desk. Guests should know the access road climbs — that is the price of the horizon.
Kinley, founder
Where it sits
At 3,090 metres in the pines off the Paro to Thimphu road, around thirty five minutes from Paro International Airport. Views to Jichu Drake and the high range; a 1600s prayer wall stands on the property. Positioned between the Paro and Thimphu valleys, either reachable within the hour.
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