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About Sikkim |
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Sikkim, an untouched, timeless land
whose smiling people offer you unforgettable
friendliness. |
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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 destination |
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Sikkim 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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