‘Moving to Bhutan taught me to live mindfully’: How an American woman found love and happiness in the Himalayas

Tamara Ceaikovski

CNN  —  Arriving in the Kingdom of Bhutan, nestled deep in the Himalayas between Tibet and India, Linda Leaming was blown away by its beauty. The year was 1994, she was 39 and had taken time out of her busy career as a freelance writer in Nashville to go traveling. She was curious about the tiny Buddhist country that at the time was still a new and untapped tourism destination and to this day thrives with little outside influence . As Linda flew into the remote valley town of Paro, famed for