Gangtok,Sikkim

Tripoto
1st Aug 2019
Day 1

we reached New jalpaiguri station at around 8 am on friday morning. Took a cab and headed towards gangtok.we reached there at around 1 pm and took a hotel with an amazing view of the moutain name white hill residency.They charged us Rs 1200 for deluxe room due to off season otherwise rs 3600 is there normal tarrif. We took some rest and went down to Mg Road for our lunch and spent the whole day exploring Mg marg and lal bazar.

Here we started going uphill

Photo of Gangtok,Sikkim by Ummar Anwar

Tiesta river

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Mg marg

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View from our hotel room

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Mg Marg

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Some points on the road where really scary

Photo of Gangtok,Sikkim by Ummar Anwar
Photo of Gangtok,Sikkim by Ummar Anwar
Photo of Gangtok,Sikkim by Ummar Anwar
Photo of Gangtok,Sikkim by Ummar Anwar
Photo of Gangtok,Sikkim by Ummar Anwar
Photo of Gangtok,Sikkim by Ummar Anwar

We visited Nathula pass, tsomgo lake and baba harbhajan singh mandir on saturday.
We managed to get the permission via our hotel on friday evening for these places as it requires permission. This part of our trip was the best part.

Doggo

Photo of Gangtok,Sikkim by Ummar Anwar

A perfect Shot , doggo trying to pose ????

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Some photography skill

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Spotted this yak at tsomgo lake

Photo of Gangtok,Sikkim by Ummar Anwar

we were at 12k ft this time

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Tried to capture some cool shots

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Old silk route

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Gangtok as a city itself is very very clean

Photo of Gangtok,Sikkim by Ummar Anwar

pagalpanti ????

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My tribe

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Photo of Gangtok,Sikkim by Ummar Anwar

Baba harbhajan singh New mandir, please find the story about this new mandir,its amazing. Salute to our indian army heroes for being so polite and maintaining the Mandir.

Photo of Gangtok,Sikkim by Ummar Anwar

Baba harbhajan singh real uniform present at the Old and orignal Baba Mandir

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Tsomgo lake

Photo of Gangtok,Sikkim by Ummar Anwar

Enroute to Nathula pass, we couldnt click pictures there because it was prohibited as it is indo china border at an altitude of around 14,000 ft high.

Photo of Gangtok,Sikkim by Ummar Anwar

Now the last day of our trip, we managed to wake up early during sunrise and got a glimpse of the lovely khanchenjunga Range.It is beautiful.Nature has its own high, we did some sight seening(Monasteres, Hanuman tok, Ganesh tok,some lovely waterfalls) on sunday as well and check out the hotel and left for NJP station to return back to kolkata.

Hanuman tok

Photo of Gangtok,Sikkim by Ummar Anwar

Phodong Monastery

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Finally captured this ????

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Greenery, the best of monsoon is that you will find this place very lush green.

Photo of Gangtok,Sikkim by Ummar Anwar
Photo of Gangtok,Sikkim by Ummar Anwar

View from our hotel room, a sunrise in gangtok ????

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Mount Khanchenzonga

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Ganesh Tok

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Shiv mandir beside a very beautiful waterfall

Photo of Gangtok,Sikkim by Ummar Anwar

The doggos were very friendly

Photo of Gangtok,Sikkim by Ummar Anwar

chestnut-crowned laughingthrush (Trochalopteron erythrocephalum) (sanjeevdhar)

Photo of Gangtok,Sikkim by Ummar Anwar

We started our journey on thursday night at 10 pm from sealdah station via darjeeling mail.
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Started our journey from sealdah station

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Darjeeling mail????????

Photo of Gangtok,Sikkim by Ummar Anwar
Photo of Gangtok,Sikkim by Ummar Anwar