Thursday, April 22, 2010

Sikkim,a dream land

I know that there are a very few people who get such a opprtunity to have a life time experience in the age of mine with the beauty and fascination of a place where everyone would dream to be a part of and discover a place within India which seems to be a completely different country far away from our usual life and never the least the peoples with such simple mind.I am fortunate in this case to visit  such a place and get associated with those peoples being disconnected from the rest of the world and out of the monotony of the daily usual life may be it was only for 7 days.

We six close friends from Macdonld Hall Russel , Pravin, Obayeed , Srikanta, Tanmay and myself were there
for last seven days as we want to make our collge life much more memorable with the spicy experice of a place we were completely unawared of.Thats why we had decided to visit to Sikkim which always held a special fascinaton for tourists across the globe.We all really enjoyed a lot and experienced something
spicy to be last long in all of our memory.


Sikkim,the place where culture, nature are in abundance. There’s captivating sight seeing we all came across at gangtak, nathula,lachen,lachung,gurudonga and yumtang valley.And above all, Zero point  is just an amazing place one cannot afford to miss!and I think all those places is undoubtedly the most exciting and beautiful tourist spot in the world.

The first day in Sikkim we spent our time at the capital,Gangtak.We had seen some otstanding sight seeig
around Gangtak and we bought few things which are special and famous for Sikkim.The next day morning we were all set to go to nathula,probably the highest point in Sikkim.Thats why we were expecting more ice and snow.But the weather betrayed us.It was raining and we had not been able to seen the road also,we were going through except the driver as he was driving with full speed.That was quite adventurous.As I said due to the bad weather we had seen some ice and now but not in abundance that was what we were expecting of.We also visited Tsangoo lake on that day.The day was good but quite dissappointing.

The next day as per the instruction we got ready for the way to Lachen which is 130km away from gangtak.
And instructor Runuda told us that that will be a hatric (hectic) journey lol :)But the joy of watching beautiful places did not make us feel like a hectic journey though it was a journey of about 7 hours.We reached Lachen in the evening and spent that night with the very good hospitality of the people of the hotel Mount pandim. They were truely awesome and superb as they have a great heart and I felt that I am one of the lucky people to get associated with such people and that memory I can cherish throughout rest of my life.

The next day very early morning we all set to go to gurudonba from lachen.But the path was unknown for
the driver too as he was there for the first time too.As days past the weather came in favor of us as it was a shinney day and we discovered the rough topography of the Himalayas covered with ice as like that kiss the sky on the above and made an amaging show on the way to gurudomba.In gurudomba we also were lucky to see a completely frozen lake and  we,6 people among the all tourists there went to the lake and played with ice despite of restriction.At that moment I felt it was the most joyous moment I had ever had.Then we came back to lachen again and after having lauch we went for Lachung.At night we reached there.

Next day morning we went for yumthang valley and zeo point from lachen.As the last day night was raining
through we got to see the snow all around us.It was amazing and pretty exciting to view such a scenario
in naked eyes.All the trees were also covered with snow which made an amazing view.We had not been able
to went to zero point as the road has been blocked with snow and ice.Still we have enjoyed a lot and to
the fullest that I could.

So,as those days passed our tour became much more exciting and we all experienced a lot and enjoyed the journey thoroughly.We all also invented something of our own.As like Obayeed told us how to measure the temparature of the weather with a meter scale  lol and I have invented there can be a coin of  Rs 3 lol :) and russel invented how to reset a place :).Well,it was a nice jouney and a bit adventurous too.We all will remember that expericence to cherish it thorughout the rest of our life.


7 comments:

  1. It has always been my dream to visit Sikkim once in my lifetime.. but as my daughter is with special needs I am a bit cautious whether she will be able to deal with the travel or not... The pic are too tempting.
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  2. wowowowww...... superb photos... Im planning to go to Sikkim this time :D
    absolutely cool place...

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  3. lovely place indeed1 a dream destination!

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  4. Sikkim Great place, India is proud of Sikkim
    thanks for sharing lovely and lively pics

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  5. thanks for all the comments...yeah Sikkim is a lovely place specially the people over there and those 7 days were most joyous moments for me :)

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