Asha Kama Wangdi is embarking on an ambitious project: a high-altitude sanctuary for local and international creatives
In 2022, Wangdi moved to this patch of high-altitude land, part of an inheritance handed down to his elder sister that she had given to him (inheritance usually favours daughters in Bhutan). He then raided his savings to buy adjacent plots and converted a donated Toyota Coaster minibus into his initial residence.
The bus is still parked on his half-hectare site, but the now 67-year-old Wangdi occupies a two-storey wooden structure that previously served as what’s known in the local Dzongkha language as a domchim, a hut built with a vantage point to guard surrounding farms against roaming animals. It is fitted with a compact kitchen and bathroom on the ground floor while a steep staircase leads to a cosy bedroom with a balcony, which serves as his open-air studio.
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