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Haa Tshechu in Haa Valley
Haa Tshechu is treated here as a traditional religious masked-dance festival held at a temple or dzong within Haa valley, distinct from the valley's separate, secular cultural festival held earlier in the year. Exact host site and program details are thinly documented given how recently Haa opened to outside visitors.
Haa valley, a high, pine-forested district near Bhutan's border with Tibet's Chumbi region, is home to two of the country's oldest and most revered temples, Lhakhang Karpo, the White Temple, and Lhakhang Nagpo, the Black Temple, both said to date to the seventh century and linked in legend to the same wave of early Himalayan temple-building associated with the Tibetan king Songtsen Gampo.