• Source: Sakteng

Sakteng (Dzongkha: སག་སྟེང་, romanized: sag steng) is a town and the headquarters of an eponymous gewog in Trashigang District in far eastern Bhutan. The nearby Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary is named after it.




In popular culture


Sakteng was featured in an Imogen Heap song and video Climb to Sakteng officially published in 2014 as part of the album Sparks. It documents the families of the village carrying power poles up the mountain as part of the successful 2012 effort to electrify their village.




References



Armington, S. (2002) Bhutan. (2nd ed.) Melbourne: Lonely Planet.




External links


Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Music video of Climb to Sakteng

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