Hotel Central Gangtok
31- A, National Highway Gangtok, Sikkim, India
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Sikkim - Its in India it just doesn't realise!
We left Darjeeling for Sikkim by shared jeep, shoe horned in with 8 others plus a driver. All very cosy! Not a very good start to the journey as the jeeps started motor appeared to be broken, meaning we had to rely on kind strangers to push us and get us bump started! To make it worse the driver had a terrible habit of staling it all the time, so …
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Ravangla South Sikkim (aka Rabongla)
... put it in and it’s too small to wrap in banana leaf. That’s the problem when plastic bags are banned, tho luckily Pat has smuggled a few in and we get the cheese which I eat a little and leave a lot.
So we move on, the drive to Pelling is 5 hours so we decide to break the journey in Rabongla. The road is actually relatively not bad, there are no trucks, the driver is great and the sun shines. ...
Sikkim-more monasteries and snow-capped mountains
... of the town, both above and below, and the far side of the valley. Heading back, we find a very rough, dirty stairway leading to the street some four floors below. This street has a parking station under the large building, and leads us to a curving ramp up to what turns out to be the main market.
We explore the market, finding a good range of fruit and veg, plus spices and lots of chilies. We see mounds of small dirty yellow and brown blocks. It ...
Tea in Darjeeling – what else?
... alongside the main road, passing every town along the way (unfortunately though, we hadn’t gotten one with a steam engine – it was diesel). The general cabin got really packed as all sorts of locals packed on along the way, particularly students walking home from school. While the train was in motion, they would run up alongside it and jump on, packing into the small cabin to hitch a free ride uphill. All around us was ...
Nature's Clock
... morning sunrise. English is fairly new to her tongue and her language I knew nothing of, but Namaste. I felt as if she was the educated one and I was the student. We connected through hand jesters and the female bond that us women experience from female to female.
I met Betva on my first three hour morning hike up to an ancient meditation cave that sits high up on the mountain top where I met a 63 year old english man meditating in this cave for ...



