If you are a Pig, Goat (Sheep), Tiger or Snake, it's best to fast forward to 2014.

CNN: What fortune will the Year of the Snake bring you?

In the wood-carving classroom, the heads of a tiger, leopard, boar, owl, snake, deer, dog, ox, rabbit, dragon and a mythical bird called a garuda all snarl down at onlookers.

BBC: Bhutan, the kingdom of the clouds