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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 destination
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.
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. |
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