Gangtok India
5/5
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Best Session
January - December
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Ideal Duration
3
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Station:
New Jalpaiguri
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Major Airports
Pakyong, Bagdogra
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Weather
4.86 ° C
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Weather Type
Clouds
9999/-
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"Gangtok... The High Hills" A favorite height with honeymooners, trekkers, and holidaymakers, Gangtok is Sikkim’s proud capital boasting of a mesh of magical places that are bound to make your heart skip a beat. Now, traveling to Gangtok the awesome capital of Sikkim is all the easier with Gangtok Travel Guide. This Travel Guide is an online impetus to help Gangtok tourism’ inflow. Elaborated with details on reaching, dining, staying facilities, and helpful numbers, the Guide is a traveling impresario serving you with directions, excursions, and minute details on the Gangtok tour packages.

Situated in the Shivalik Hills of eastern Himalayas, Gangtok is an entry point to the East Sikkim and also to some northern parts of Sikkim. A Buddhist city, gompas, orchids, rhododendrons, stupas, tea gardens, and grievous treks characterize Gangtok’s geographical whereabouts. The organic beauty of the Gangtok Hills has juxtaposed the civic values and free-plastic zone in the city. Gangtok has an amazing civil sense where the smallest shop has a dustbin outside it.

An oasis for peace hunting hearts, Gangtok is a city fashioned out with heaps of natural quotients. A picture-perfect capital city of Sikkim, Gangtok is laid out on the ridge overlooking the Ranipool River. Quiet, beautiful, and intoxicating, Gangtok’s 1,870 mt sees the pinnacle melt into clouds in white splendor. Built up with lush paddy terraces and river-watered valleys, Gangtok commands a stunning view. As you make the visit, one sees valleys strewn out with efflorescent blossoms of multi-hued Orchids, Rhododendron, and other wild blooms.

Sikkim’s Capital City, Gangtok is the home of wonders! A record of 5.5 lakh tourists visiting Sikkim in the year 2008 emphasizes Gangtok’s unique propensity of attracting Gangtok tourism and evidence increasing tourism graph of the state. With more and more traffic frequenting Gangtok honeymoon packages , it has evolved into a mainstream Himalayan Travel zone. Today, Sikkim’s capital is a functional stretch of multi-storeyed houses, layered against steep mountain ridges. Gangtok’s the conflation of a cosmopolitan vein and old-world charm wherein the mists the colorful flag flogs relentlessly in the cool mountain breeze, young and old Lamas keep spinning prayer wheels in their hands, labyrinth streets are flaked with snow, on the other side can view the colorful Pagoda roofs and on them the heartening smiles of monks and lamas wearing silk ... shops are brightened with shining jewelry and spices whereas the major market areas are poised with goods and gadgets from across the seven seas. Kangchendzodnga over looks the city in strange awe, while across the hills and valleys comes the sounding of long trumpets by the robed Lamas. In the city Enchey Monastery, Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, and Do Drul Chorten are some of the enchanting spots with tourists.

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