The next minute I googled for the info about Gangtok and placed to visit to in Gangtok, accommodation e.t.c my dad also check with his friends about the gangtok tour. At last we fixed our plan to Gangtok I desperately waited for the journey day.
We boarded Kanchankanya Exp at 5.30PM from sealdah station we reached New Jalpaiguri (NJP) at 8.30AM which we are supposed to reach 7AM…yeah train delayed for 1hr. We waited outside of NJP station around for 30mins to meet our travel operator. At last he came and arranged a cab for us to Gangtok.
Our cab driver named Mr.Bipin who is very helpful and told about Gangtok placed to hangout, culture and about his family ground, life e.t.c originally he is nepali migrated to India.
Journey gangtok was really exciting first passing between mahananda wildlife sanctuary…then majestic view of mountains and alongside….the teesta river and numerous ancient small bridges…as you start approaching closer to Gangtok the cloud cover becomes more dense… the major difference between Gangtok and other major hill stations is of the altitude. Gangtok with its height (550ft) is one of the highest hill stations in india.
At last we reached Gangtok around 12PM. The best part in gangtok was they will now allow the vehicles which are coming outside from Sikkim. As well as the capacity inside the vehicle was not more than 4persons if police caught more than 4people they will fine, though we got 2cabs to go to our hotel. We booked our rooms in Hotel Sikkim and got refreshed ourselves.
We went to one restaurant which is in M.G.Mart had a good food and we puzzled ourselves to where to go and then we spent some time near M.G.Mart….at last we decided to go to rope way which is very nearer from M.G.Mart….it was fully crowded once we reached rope way. At last we managed to get the tickets.
Rope way ride its one of the main tourist attraction in Gangtok, it will take the riders to the highest point of the city…covering a distance of about 1KM in only 7mins. It has three terminal stations. The ride provides a bird eye view of the city and the surrounding valley. The cable car accommodate only 24people at a time only negative point is there are no seats.
After completion of the ride we went Himalayan exhibition…we purchased some handmade articles and spent some time over there and reached gangtok market which is very crowded and later we went to another hotel in M.G.Mart and had our dinner and returned back to our hotel around 9PM and slept. The climate was 14’ degrees in the afternoon it was less then 10’degrees in the nights.
In the morning we woke up and went to Sikkim tourist office to get the information about Nathula point, Tsongo Lake…..we enquired with another tour operator as well she told that the permissions for that day were over though she tried a lot but no luck….:( so we decided to hang out the places around the gangtok and searched for taxi…no one was ready to take us as we are 5persons at last we got one cab who accepted for 5persons and charged bit extra.
We started our trip by visiting suicide point it was like edge of the hills the scenaric view is very good one who loves the hills stations (like me… :D) will definitely enjoy a lot….later we went to flower show which is really interest where you can find a different types, varieties of flowers the way they decorated the flowers is really interesting.
We went to enchy monastery it’s a 200yr old monastery when we were there a lot of cute young monks who are doing their work offering prayers to god… inside the temple there is a Gawtham budha statue which looks like budha is very serious we took snaps along with monks. Later we went to Ganesh tok, Hanuman tok those are the temples we had a darshan and went to Tashi view point…it’s very beautiful where visitors can get a perfect view of the opposite hills, beside mount Kanchenjunga. The snow range of Kanchenjunga could be seen on clear days from this view point.
Later we went to Rumtek monastery and jhakri water falls it was like a natural waterfalls and the water was very fresh which was coming up from mountains and then we went Bhanjakri waterfalls here my sister dressed a traditional nepali dress and we took the photographs it’s really awesome. This is the last place and we got down near our hotel in the evening.
In the evening we spent our time by hanging out near M.G.Mart and all we enjoyed a lot…. the climate of Gangtok was really awesome…when it rains its really awesome the people of gangtok will always carry umbrellas along with them whenever they come out....because they cannot predict when it will rain.
The next day in the early morning we started our journey to Siliguri in Sikkim RTC bus the journey was really good we reached Siliguri the climate was too hot and disgusting somehow we managed and we boarded into our train capital exp at 3PM and reached Barsoi where we have to catch another train to Kolkata.
Barsoi, I will never forget this place in my life it’s a station we never get anything to eat there are no lights inside the stations the entire village is without power I donno know bihari’s are managing I think this the real situation in bihar. At last we got our train to around 6.30PM to kolkatta reached Kolkata the very next day around 7AM in the morning.
I will never forget the moments of this trip in my life people who planned to visit gangtok don’t check with travel operator they will loot the money like anything plan yourself personally and make arrangements like accommodation, sightseeing, cab e.t.c. The best part is people in Gangtok are really helpful they will speak 3-4 languages( Hindi, English, Bengali, Nepali) every one can easily manage.
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