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Classes available at the new Aquatic Center

Making use of Aquatic Centre The newly built Thimphu Aquatic Centre is silent. A group of teenage boys are swimming rigorously. Kunzang Sangay Tenzing and Tenzin Dendup Dorji, along with three friends, came to swim for an hour and a half yesterday. Kunzang and Tenzin, both high school graduates, are teaching swimming to their f...

We are back with our basic swimming course for kids. We have limited no of slots available, so hurry up and register today!
For further details, please call 02 337788

Affordable Swimming pool for Bhutan coming up. Better late than never.🙏

Our deepest condolences to family and friends of these two innocent lives lost.

Om mani padme hum 🙏🙏🙏

Two boys drowned in Haa-chhu

At around 3:40 pm today, two boys in their teens drowned in the Haa chhu. One is a class X graduate who was going to start his schooling in class XI from tomorrow and the other is a school dropout.

The incident happened nearly one kilometre from Jenkana primary school towards Haa town from Chhuzom.

According to sources, they went on a potluck with two other friends. The incident reportedly happened after they went swimming. Sources said when one of the deceased was drowning, his friend tried to rescue but both were drawn into a whirlpool. When the rescue team reached the site, it was already too late.

The bodies were retrieved from the river.

With demand from the clients, we are organizing our second batch of basic swimming course from 27th January. We have limited no of slots available, so hurry up and register today!
For registration, call 17997057 / 17489819

Keep on swimming🏊‍♂️❤️

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This is a basic introduction class but still a rare opportunity worth looking into!😉

Le Meridien Thimphu will be conducting basic swimming class for kids between 10-15 years starting 8th October 2018 with support from Bhutan Aquatics Federation. Register now and get a Life time skill that will last with you for a life time! For registration call +975 1770941
Certificates will be issued upon completion of the 2 weeks program.

Commendations to BOC for organizing this two day swimming training clinic at Le Meridien Thimphu!

We look forward to more swimming and learning opportunities in Bhutan!

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Summer Camp starts on Monday June 29th!

If you haven't signed up already now is your last chance please visit the Namgay Heritage swimming pool ASAP. (we expect to be full based on all of those who are going to sign up/pay fees up but still have at least 10 seats available right now).

Please arrive by 8:45am on Monday and (campers not parents!) get dressed into your swimming costume (or arrive dressed) - but please remain dry! No need to shower before we start on Monday as we will have a safety discussion outside of the pool first. After that it's shower and in the pool.

Look forward to meeting you all!

Summer Camp FAQ:

i) Safety

Our sessions have a maximum of 35 students at a time. We have two certified swim instructors, a lifeguard (not formally certified as there is no authority for this in Bhutan), and support staff.

We begin our camp with the assumption that none of our students can swim, and we start with safe practice education on the pool area, entry, exit, and progress within each students comfort level to standing in water, face in water, moving through water etc. - of course we allow swimmers to move faster as this is a fun camp and we can manage all the different levels according to their experience.

The coaching, game time, and free swim time is always fully supervised.

ii) Cost

Any discussion to book out a swimming pool is going to be expensive, when it's a four star hotel which provides great facilities including laundered towels, once can expect it may not be a cheap option, but in terms of normal costs for these types of programs, this is a fair price - it should be a little more than the walk swimming fee, to cover the cost of the training and programs, in this case it is 25% more (walk in for a student is Nu. 450 per 2 hours, program is 15 hours). So we do hope that most people are not deterred by the cost as this will still be an educational, safe and definately fun summer camp for the kids.

iii) What to bring / food

Students need only bring a comfortable dry swimming costume, a change of clothes, a water bottle marked with their name, and of course comfortable well fitting goggles. Towels and drinking water refills are provided. No need to snack but please eat before arriving (preferably not immediately before (about 30 minutes before recommended). Children will be hungry after the camp - because they were active, it's healthy (provided they ate before coming)! :)

Announcing a SUMMER FUN SWIMMING CAMP FOR AGES 7 to 14 all levels of experience beginner to advanced.

Registration now open at Namgay Heritage Swimming Pool. Fee is Nu. 4,500 for the week long program Monday to Friday.

Seats limited to 35 per session.

Programs start on Monday June 29th and again on Monday July 6th.

Timing is 3 hours a day Morning or Evening (9AM to 12PM or 12:30PM to 3:30PM).

Drop off should be 15 minutes before starting and pickup within 15 minutes from ending.

Swimmers must bring a proper swimming costume which fits comfortably, swimming goggles which fit properly and a water bottle marked with their name (either water or a sports drink no soda please). Drinking water refill will be available all day and towels are also provided.

The three hours will be approximately divided into one hour of instruction done according to your childs level of swimming skill and age focusing on basic swimming and safety (facilitated by two certified swimming instructors and support staff), approximately one hour of fun games facilitated by the staff, and a last hour of free play swimming (with the option of spending time on games or coaching per each swimmers energy and interest!).

See you there! Please call 17392874 or email [email protected] if you have further questions (or message us here on Facebook). Thanks!

Attention Ongoing swimmers from 2014 - we are very glad to offer you the option to continue, now at Namgay Heritage Swimming pool. However we have found that many of you are not able to continue this year, and we have filled only 30-40% of our necessary class space. By popular demand we have now pushed the starting date to after examinations, which end by July 1st for all schools. We would like to invite you all (swimmers from last year) to register as soon as possible if you want to finish your swim lessons. Because Namgay needs to be open to the public during evenings over the summer break, we will now only be able to start by July 20th, but we will definitely start then and with a full group - a mix of ongoing or intermediate.

We need full sessions to continue the ongoing group and so we invite intermediate swimmers, people who know how to swim but want to improve their stroke/style, to join our ongoing group by registering and paying the Nu. 2,850 (students) or Nu. 3,300 (adults) fee at Namgay Heritage as soon as possible.

For children ages 7 to 15 of all levels of swimming, beginner, intermediate or advanced, we are operating a swimming camp (both fun, basic coaching, and free time) for 3 hours a day on a weekly basis over the summer - enrollment and other details will be available here tomorrow! If you want to get the rush on enrollement (space is limited to 35) please go by Namgay Heritage and sign up for the camp program - fee is Nu. 4,500 - full details to be posted here tomorrow!