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Gangtok Slideshow
Top Hotels in Gangtok
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The Royal Plaza Gangtok
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Tarika Gangtok
3 reviews -
Chumbi Residency Hotel Gangtok
19 reviews
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Orange Village Resort Gangtok
27 reviews
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Hotel Himalayan Heights Gangtok
15 reviews
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Hotel Tibet Gangtok
16 reviews
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Bamboo Resort Gangtok
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Mt. Narsingh Village Resort Gangtok
13 reviews -
Himalayas Hotel Gangtok
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Hotel Norkhill Gangtok
64 reviews
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Elgin Nor-Khill Gangtok
64 reviews
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Hotel Sonam Delek Gangtok
54 reviews
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Hotel Golmaheem Gangtok
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Hotel Asian Heights Gangtok
5 reviews
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Marigold Hotel Gangtok
2 reviews
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De Villa Gangtok
1 review
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Hotel Bayul Gangtok
1 review
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Hotel Rumtek Dzong Gangtok
8 reviews
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Kewzing Home Gangtok
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Suhim Portico Gangtok
84 reviews
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Hotel Central Gangtok
8 reviews
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The Gochala Inn Gangtok
3 reviews
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Mount Simvo Gangtok
2 reviews
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Sikkim Retreat Hotel Gangtok
13 reviews
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Hotel Crystal Palace Gangtok
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The Oriental Gangtok
38 reviews
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Superview Himalchuli Gangtok
3 reviews
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Hotel Golden Heights Gangtok
20 reviews
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Tiber Hotel Gangtok
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Hotel Golden Pagoda Gangtok
15 reviews
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The Sikkim Continental Gangtok
6 reviews
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Vinayak Hotel Gangtok
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Hotel Namling Residency Gangtok
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Hotel Mayur Gangtok
10 reviews
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Zam-Den Hotel Gangtok
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Hotel Nirvana Gangtok
4 reviews
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Aashishkhim Guest House Gangtok
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Hotel Rendezvous Gangtok
12 reviews
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Saramsa Resort Gangtok
5 reviews
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Dhotapu Guest House Gangtok
4 reviews
Gangtok
Travel Blogs from Gangtok, India
Monks, Momos and more...
This is a top pick! ... of sensitive border proximity here so all the foreign tourists need to be accounted for...especially the potentially dodgy Americans! Gangtok is the capital of the former kingdom of Sikkim (an Indian state since the mid-1970's). There's ...
Touring stunning Sikkim
This is a top pick! ... slopes and the larger, rapidly modernising towns such as Namchi (meaning 'Sky High'), Pelling and the capital, Gangtok have developed along ridgelines. Waterfalls cascade and freefall down the green mountainsides, providing stunning spectacles and, ...
Weeping Sikkim
This is a top pick! The Three Gorges Dam in China is not the only controversial hydro-electric project in Asia. Projects that will vastly affect the environment and local villagers are currently planned in North Sikkim. You can read about the protesters' hunger ...
Dzongri/Thangsing/Yuksom
This is a top pick! The final week of the trek. Near death due to typhoid on day eight, and the start of two weeks of sheer hell. I may never write this up. Too ...
Be soft on my curves
This is a top pick! ... . Speed thrills but kills. Drive slower live longer. and, my personal favourite: Be soft on my curves. I had a pretty quiet afternoon in Gangtok, organising a trek to Goecha-La and updating my blog. Later on a I bumped into a guy I met in Darjeeling, and ...
I am a yak
This is a top pick! ... canyons of the Himalayas or it just might be that I am a solo traveller now. Having returned yesterday from Yuksom to Gangtok in Sikkim yesterday, I came back into contact with the world of e mail, telephones, and electricity. Upon checking my e mail ...
The Kingdom of Sikkim
This is a top pick! ... . Sikkim use to be its own kingdom until 1975. It has long been considered of the last Himalayan Shangri Las. India took over without a fight and I don't thing it really even affected the way the people lived there. ...
The joys of the Indian Postal Service
Epic afternoon in Gangtok, trying to utilize the Indian postal service. Thought I'd send a small parcel home. Wrapped it up in brown paper, with Sellotape around it. Told that I couldn't send it like that (wanted to send it by some form of registered ...
Arrived Gangtok
We explored around sikkim area, from lacheng to lachung, to yumesomdog, and turned back to gangtok again waiting for very cool tibetan monk dancing festival. ...
The Land of Rice
... to the dedication of a new soccer stadium, front row seats, thanks to the father of one of the staff members. The President of India walked right in front of me and took my khata. We were entertained by the Lepchas, Bhutias and Nepalese , young women in ...
Trip
... world. But , LA is a melting pot of many cultures so my awareness was in a heightened state. The flight on Air India was incredibly long with an 11/2 hour layover in Frankfurt Germany. Its really wierd to walk around a foreign airport everything seemede ...
Rhenock Village
From Singtam a 30 min ride to Rangpo and from there another 1.5 hour drive up to ...
Into Sikkim in the Himalayas
8:30 bus cancelled so 9:30 it is. Train climbs around rivers and mountains climbing to 1180 metres. Arrived 2:30. gangtok is capital of Sikkim which borders West Bengal, Nepal, China, Tibet. Need show passports and permits at the border. Disputes here ...
Sikkamese Delight
... Saree's away for a more western and labeled look. Nestled among the steep and green hills of Sikkim lies the "Capital" Gangtok. After taking a bumpy and squished in five hour shared jeep ride we finally arrived into Gangtok, though it was dark. It was a ...
Rumtek and Singtam
From Gangtok, a 1.5 hour drive up to Rumtek by jeep, and another 1.5 hour drive down to Singtam by ...
Everest Base Camp and back
Day 3: Lhatse to Everest Base Camp June 23, 2006 Our driver told us we needed to be ready to leave Lhatse by 8:00am so we were. We got on the road and made it about 5 minutes to another road block. We waited there for a while as our driver got the ...
Tashiding
A 2 hour jeep ride to Geyzing to drop off our bags at a family home and then trekking for about 6 hours down and then up a steep hill to get to Tashiding ...
Sikkim: Trekking at the doorstep of the Himalayas
Pelling, Yuksom, Tashiding, Legship, Gangtok, Sikkim, India October 12-17, 2008 The Road to Pelling and The Greatest Dumplings on Earth Saying goodbye to Darjeeling, we made our way north to the autonomous state of Sikkim on Oct 12. We spent a night ...
Yuksom
A 4 to 5 hour hike along the main road and then hitching onto a private car for the last 8 km to get to ...
Around North Sikkim
... an undiscovered and unspoilt place, with warm, friendly people, and most definitely worth a visit. So put on your travelling shoes and get yourselves out here. Can certainly recommend a Gangtok travel agent called Hishey Dorje @ 'Discover Sikkim' ...
finish the arrival story
... rain forest and sub-tropical. The only way to move commerce here is by truck and there are alot on the roads. We reached Gangtok the capital of Sikkim by 7PM. Sikkim was made the 24th state of India in 1975 ending a centuries old Buddhist monarchy. ...