Hotel Newa Regency
Travel Blogs from Gangtok
Queen of the Hills
... the cane baskets they carry on their backs.
Darjeeling finally turns up amidst horns and traffic, people everywhere we are back in Bengal. Our driver has to park a distance from our hotel as his number plates are SK (Sikkim) so we start to walk in chaos a little concerned as we are a few days early for our hotel booking. Out of the woods pop our guardian angels, we had met them previously in Sikkim and had enjoyed their knowledge of places to stay and ...
Sikkim's Unique Peacefulness and Dance
... and went music hunting, went to visit art work in the museums, did some shopping. We searched for days for some pieces of music only to discover that we were given half information and incorrect information. We bought some movies and watched them.
The staff were lovely at the hotel but it just didn't feel real. We had wine one night which was n
All an all a great trip with the some lovely ladies
Working with groups and ...
A cup of tea please
... en helicoptere pour rejoindre Bagdogra, bien plus
au Sud, nous permettant de faire en 35 minutes un trajet de plus de 4h
en jeep. Cela a egalement ete l'occasion pour moi de faire mon bapteme de
l'air en helicoptere, quel bonheur. Je vous mets quelques photos qui
(meme si pas encore retouchees pour reveler leurs "true
colours") vous donnent quand meme un apercu du trajet.
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Day 3: Walking along the mountain trails
... that nobody visited that place recently. There was an old stupa (they call it "Mane") and I was taking a few shots there. From there when we had reached the main gumpha, only a few steps ahead, it was already dark. There, suddenly Sayan screamed. Following him, what I saw was amazing! Now we know why the Buddhist monks selected this place for their living. The beautiful Himalayas was clearly visible from there.We were not feeling like leaving that ...
Day 1: On our way to Ravangla - little trouble
... a collision with two bike riders. The bikers stopped our car and they were so furious that they almost beat our driver. We lost some more time there.
When we were in Singtam, some police officials stopped our car and asked for the permit (WB drivers need permit to drive in Sikkim) from our driver. AGAIN ANOTHER SURPRISE FOR US, our driver didn't have the necessary permit, neither had he the ...
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