The big Buddha is like this huge Buddha statue on the top of a hill just outside Timpoo.

Producer Sushmita Patak is walking at the base of a series of mountains in the Kingdom of Bhutan,

a small country in the Himalayas nestled between India and China.

It's a place almost every tourist, everyone who visits Bhutan goes to, and there was just something

very peaceful and very spiritual about that place.

She noticed prayer flags fluttering near the statue, each color representing an element of nature.

Fire, water, wind, earth, and sky.

And even though it is like one of the most popular tourist spots, there were hardly any tourists.

Sushmita spoke to Samikshabedekha Bedekar, a traveler there who seemed similarly enamored with the breathtaking landscape and the culture that had protected it.

I have read about Bhutan very long back about how this is free from carbon emissions.

The history and the culture of this country has never get colonized.

This country is true to their roots, preserving their culture, and they know how to say no.

What is this metal that these people are made of, that they have preserved this culture so strongly.

As she stood in front of the giant Buddha statue, Sushmita felt lucky to be surrounded by Bhutan's natural beauty.

I could hear the buzzing of the insects there, which really struck me, like, when I go to a tourist spot in India,

the dominant noise is that of the tourists.

And it's not just India.

If you go to any major travel destination anywhere in the world,

the Coliseum, the Eiffel Tower, Machu Picchu. Every spot is so mobbed

with people, you can barely experience the thing you're there to see. And residents in these places

are fed up. More than 20,000 people have taken part in a protest against mass tourism.

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