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Sikkim
Silk Route & Zuluk
The Old Tibet Road
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Why Silk Route & Zuluk?
The Old Silk Route of East Sikkim — from Rongli up through Lingtam, Aritar and Zuluk to Thambi View Point at 3,430m — is one of the most photographed mountain drives in India. Thirty-two hairpin bends stacked like a zigzag ladder on a bare hillside, Mount Kanchenjunga to your west, the plains of North Bengal far below. An offbeat week that ends at Nathang Valley and the Tsomgo Lake road back to Gangtok.
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How to Prepare for the Goechala Trek
Eleven days, 4,940m, the east face of Kanchenjunga. Here is how to train — and why it matters.
Tshering Bhutia11 min read
Gangtok for First-Timers — a Walking Guide
A clean, cable-car Himalayan city. Here is a morning, an afternoon and an evening that you will remember.
Sonam Lepcha6 min read
Why North Sikkim Deserves Five Days, Not Two
The whirlwind two-day Lachung–Yumthang trip sold you a lie. Here is how to do North Sikkim at the pace it was built for.
Karma Bhutia8 min read
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