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Sikkim
Yuksom
Sikkim’s First Capital
Ground notes
Why Yuksom?
Yuksom sits at 1,780m in a forested basin of West Sikkim. The first capital of the Sikkimese kingdom (coronated here in 1642), it is now a sleepy village of monasteries, chortens, and cardamom farms — but also the trailhead for the two most beloved treks in Sikkim: Dzongri (4,200m) and Goechala (4,940m). Everyone who walks to Kanchenjunga base camp sets out from here.
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Yuksom in frames.
Journal
Stories from Yuksom
adventure
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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