{"id":388349,"date":"2026-03-17T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/word-s-scariest-runway-approach-my-flight\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:00:17","slug":"the-words-scariest-runway-approach-my-flight-into-bhutans-famous-paro-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=388349","title":{"rendered":"The Word&#8217;s Scariest Runway Approach? My Flight Into Bhutan\u2019s Famous Paro Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paro International Airport is the busiest airport in the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan and is the only realistic gateway for international tourists visiting the country. <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"752242\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Bhutan<\/span><\/span> has land crossings with India, but international tourists rarely use these crossings. As all of Bhutan is mountainous, there is almost nowhere to build an airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying into and out of Paro requires good visibility and weaving between mountain ranges, as well as a 180-degree hairpin turn in the valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,475,9876,19868],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-bhutan","category-paro-airport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=388349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388350,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388349\/revisions\/388350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}