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Travel Blogs from Gangtok
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 …
Who Needs Darjeeling Anyway
Arriving later than expected, we stayed the night in a hotel next to the bus station of Sikkim's capital city, Gangtok. A particularly lovely lady, who happened to be the hotel owner, brought cups of tea to our room in the morning. Oh Sweet Tea! Saviour of the morning sun! My unremitting yearn for your warm company in bed had stretched out before me like a blanket of eternity. That is all I have to say about ...
Exploring Darjeeling
... of toast with jam, cereal and porridge, tea & coffee and eggs as we liked them. Very nice!
Afterwards we started to get ready to take a look around and we read about the history of the area.
The area had originally belonged to the Buddhist Kings of Sikkim until 1780 when it was taken by invading Gurkhas from Nepal.
The East India Company gained control of the region in 1816 and then returned most of the ...
The Journey
... ones… but dark-green, happy and strong mountains. NH31 is small, winding highway and it's the only way into Sikkim… probably the whole of Northeast region. These mountains along NH31 are young so they are prone to landslides and there is very little scope to hit a reverse. I come to figure this out when we stop for half hour with about fifty other vehicles in a line, because a bulldozer ahead was working on widening the road. The army has a ...
Day 124: A Beer in the Clouds
... apparently running the show at Hotel Kabur; there was not one sign of anyone else working there. He showed us the rooms, made a few jokes, and we quickly fell in love with the little bugger. He offered us a beer on the balcony overlooking the Kangchenjunga range, as if he was reading our minds. The balcony was enormous and teeming with lovely potted ...