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| | The Observer | Travel | Shiny happy people |
 | | People are buying and selling clothes, food and toys, or gossiping in groups, or rehearsing in corners for their part in the day's celebrations. |
 | | Though Thimpu is home to fewer than 50,000 people, and is supposedly the only capital in the world with no traffic lights, after the serene other-worldly beauty of the trek, it feels brash and busy. |
 | | I spend the next few days visiting the markets and dzongs (a cross between a monastery, a civic centre and a fortress) of the capital and its surrounding area, but however many cultural and architectural wonders I see, it is the trek that stays with me. |
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