East or west, India is the best! So I have decided that before going out of India for a vacation I will first cover as much of India as I can… SO here is the list of places I want to visit before I die: Ladakh (Tibetan script: ལ་དྭགས་; Wylie: la-dwags, Ladakhi: Hindi: लद्दाख़, Urdu: لدّاخ, Hindustani [...]
Location: Dzongri Base Camp to Dzongri Peak Distance: 2 Kms Height: 4200 mts Date: 6-Oct-09 Dzongri peak gives the best view of Mount Kanchenjunga, but to see it we had to reach there before sunrise. After previous day’s high altitude sickness, I woke up fresh in the morning. Anything after midnight is morning, though it [...]
Location: Tshokha to Dzongri Distance: 9 Kms Height: 14000 ft Date: 5-Oct-09 The day started on a good note. After last night rains, the morning was bright & sunny. It is said that at high altitudes weather is best at early morning between 5 to 9 am. This is also the time to have the [...]
Location: Trek from Yuksam to Tshokha Distance: 12 Kms Height: 10000 ft Date: 4-Oct-09 The day started early for us, as we had to get ready to start our trek. It was the bright sunny day and that reflected in my mood too. I was full of energy and ready to conquer the peak. On [...]
Location: Yuksam Height: 5000 ft. Date: 3-Oct-09 Yuksom is around 138 kms from Gangtok. We started from Gangtok at around 0900 hrs. Our guide, Lalang Subba, came in morning to pick us from our hotel. The Jeep was loaded with the food ration for the next 1 week. On the way, we stopped at Ravangla [...]
Location: Gangtok, Sikkim Date: 2-Oct-09 We started for Gangtok at around 0800 hrs. The highway was bad, in fact too bad to be called even roads and that’s the state of roads I observed in most of northern part of West Bengal. On the way we stopped at an arc-bridge (one of its kind in [...]
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