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Sikkim Travelog – Part 5

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TweetThe Hotel Manager at Lachen turned out to be a very articulate young man. He was a social sciences teacher at the local school and he was simply helping his cousin run the hotel. “My cousin’s busy campaigning for the upcoming Assembly elections” he said. Eh, what? “So does your cousin belong to SDF (Sikkim’s […]

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Sikkim Travelog – Part 4

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TweetMG Marg in Gangtok is a pedestrian-only shopping street. Our guide told us that it was the brainchild of Sikkim’s Chief Minister Pawan Chamling. It is said that he was inspired by his visit to Switzerland. There were widespread protests by the shopkeepers on MG Marg against the pedestrian-only concept. But the CM went right […]

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Sikkim Travelog – Part 3

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TweetWe had high hopes of seeing many Himalayan birds in Sikkim. But the most common were pigeons, crows, mynahs and drongos. There were several small birds in brown hues but they flew off before your lazy authors could observe, leave alone photograph them. The 2 birds that were gracious enough to preen themselves before us […]

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Sikkim Travelog – Part 2

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TweetGetting Sikkimese food in Sikkim is very, very hard. We found it strange that the highly recommended “Tangerine” restaurant in Gangtok wanted 3 days notice to cook Sikkimese food. There are many mid range restaurants serving meat-based Tibetan food. But, finding a decent restaurant that served a vegetarian meal was as hard as the search […]

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Sikkim Travelog – Part 1

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TweetAs the readers of this blog know, we love travelling. But like most travellers we have travelled more in other countries than in our own. This realization led us to choose Odisha in Jan 2012 – a trip we have been planning to write about for the past 1.5 years 🙂 And Sikkim in April […]