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By Kay Bjork | Photography Provided
Fulbright Scholar
Learning While Teaching in Bhutan
When David and Cynthia omas arrived in Bhutan
last year, they felt like they were in a different time and
place. e tiny landlocked country in Southeast Asia is
largely isolated and only recently joined the rest of the
world when it opened its doors to tourism in 1974.
David and Cynthia Thomas pose with a Lama at the Festival in Samste.