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Sikkim
A landscaped park built around a waterfall, seven kilometres out of Gangtok on the highway north, in thick forest at Swastik next to an army camp.
A hundred and eight prayer wheels ring the base of this stupa, and one slow circuit of them is essentially the visit.
The surface stays clear of leaves, and the local account is that birds lift each one off as it drops. Sit a while and see whether it holds.
Start with the awkward part: the lake is closed to tourists, so treat anything calling it an attraction with suspicion.
You do not go to Pandim; you walk toward it. The 6,691-metre peak is in view for most of the Goecha La trek, from Dzongri onward, and it closes in as the…
A public garden close to Ranipool in Pakyong district, established in 1922 to grow fruit for the local colonial officers and later turned over to ipecacuanha…
Sikkim has exactly one tea garden and this is it, planted in 1969 by Palden Thondup Namgyal, the state's last king, and laid over a hill that slopes gently…
Tsomgo Lake, also written Changu Lake, is a high-altitude glacial lake at 3,753 metres in the rugged East Sikkim district, held in a steep oval valley just…
Yuksom is a historical village in West Sikkim, the first capital of the old Sikkimese kingdom and the trailhead for the famed Goecha La and Dzongri treks…
