My first feeling when we arrived in Sikkim, was that the climate was wonderful, after almost 2 months of being in India, we had come to a place where it was warm but hot humid, or hot. It was great :-) As much as I find Calcutta charming the climate are very humin and we had not had temperatures below 30 degrees or more all the time we were there. And comming from a Scandinavian countrie I was beginning to miss the weather at home just a bit, even though I love sun and heat.
We spend the first day walking around in the city to see it, for me it looked more like an European city than the India I had become familiar with. As I wrote in the last post Mall Road are the main street, see the picture below.
Most of the stores in Gangtok were on Mall Road or the roads wound it, in the next picture there are a picture of one of the other roads in the city.
I really enjoyed the city, it is small compared to a lot other Indian cities. But most people use it as a stop over to go further north, so there are a lot of hotels, and restaurants. And there was a really good bakery where they made some of the best cakes I had gotten so far in India. It became a place we went to almost 1 a day the days we were in Gangtok.
The next day some of the people we were travelling with decided that they wanted to go further north, while me and the french girl wanted to stay in and around Gangtok. Because we had decided that we wanted to go beck to Calcutta to try and see a bit of the Durga Puja festival.
So we decided that we wanted to go on a trip around the city and see different thing and then we wanted to go to a lake up in the mountains called Tsomgo Lake.
The trip around Gangtok included a monestary, a botanical garden and other things, here are a few pictures from that trip.
The second day we went to Tsomgo lake, this was very nice too. Below there are a few pictures from that trip. The day we went it was very cold and clody, but still the lake looked nice.
This summarices what we did the few days we were in Sikkim and Gangtok.
We spend the first day walking around in the city to see it, for me it looked more like an European city than the India I had become familiar with. As I wrote in the last post Mall Road are the main street, see the picture below.
The next day some of the people we were travelling with decided that they wanted to go further north, while me and the french girl wanted to stay in and around Gangtok. Because we had decided that we wanted to go beck to Calcutta to try and see a bit of the Durga Puja festival.
So we decided that we wanted to go on a trip around the city and see different thing and then we wanted to go to a lake up in the mountains called Tsomgo Lake.
The trip around Gangtok included a monestary, a botanical garden and other things, here are a few pictures from that trip.
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