Sikkim, an untouched, timeless land whose
smiling people offer you unforgettable friendliness.
Sikkim, a land of extraordinary
beauty-soaring mountains, plunging rivers and lush tropical
forests, brilliant with a profusion of vivid flowers, birds
and butterflies and decorated with verdant terraced
hillsides, simple stilted villages and colourful temples and
monasteries.
Sikkim is a land of abundance, beauty and
adventure. Whether your passion is long treks or short
walks-ever changing landscape; white water rafting or
mountaineering amongst the worlds highest peaks,
photographing natures diversity, or just hanging out
,meeting people of other cultures and enjoying festivals-
Sikkim is your destinationSikkim offers the magical feel of a
Himalayan fairytale land. Its an amazing place of hidden
valleys, mystical monasteries, snow fed lakes and a mountain
setting covered with flowers and forests.
Mt. Khangchendzonga the world’s third
highest mountain peak in the world at 8,586 mts., dominates
the landscape and is revered as the Sikkim's guardian deity.
Sikkim is a hidden state of India in the Himalayas across
Nepal's eastern frontier and Tibet and China in the northern
side with a part of western frontiers with Bhutan and
Darjeeling Gorkha Council in the south. Imagine walking
amongst gorgeous orchids ,flashing kaleidoscopes of singing
birds, butterflies of all sizes-all framed by snow peaks.
For centuries botanists and plant lovers have irresistibly
drawn to Sikkim for her profusion of over 4,000 species of
flowering plants, including an incredible 600 species of
Orchids. Magnificent magnolias flower in the temperate
woodlands ,more then 40 varieties of Rhododendrons covers
higher hills,45 species of primula bloom above 3,000
mts and celestial blue poppies colour the alpine heights.In the forests are trees of almost all
genera .Figs and wild bananas consort with a host of bamboos
in a tropical valleys. Rich fern life shelters beneath the
canopy ,including eight species like tree fern. Great
tropical hard woods like sal give way on higher slopes to
oak, maple and chestnut woodlands and these in turn are
replaced by yew, larch, fir and cedar up to a tree line at
4000 m.
The abundance of colour, scent and variety attracts more
then 300 bird species and 500 species of butterfly.
Sikkim-thus is rightfully is a paradise on Earth. |