At $2750 a night, lodge hopping across the Himalayas is worth it
by Andrew Hobbs · Australian Financial ReviewAndrew HobbsWealth reporter
May 26, 2026 – 5.00am
You know you’re flying somewhere special when even the world’s richest people have to line up behind you.
Only about 30 pilots in the world are licensed to make the famously hair-raising corkscrew landing at Paro International Airport in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. Thankfully, the pilot of our Royal Bhutan Airbus A319 is one of them.
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Andrew HobbsWealth reporterAndrew Hobbs covers self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs), financial planning, retirement, inheritance, tax, personal finance and, sometimes, the Perth Bears. He has been a financial journalist for 30 years, previously at Bloomberg and AAP.
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