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Caption: 'Nye-mae-el' Sikkim
Picture of Lachung
Caption: My tent is surrounded by the frosted dried flowers and winter vegetables which is expecting snow any minute. The fog thickened and made nothing visible, snowy hued and white robbed. This is a normal waking up in the misty lofty hills of Lachung, said a local.
Picture of Lachung
Caption: I started walking towards the stream, serenity of the village surprised me, wooden houses painted in yellow, green or blue, Stack of firewood in the porch, vegetable garden and cow sheds.
Picture of Lachung
Picture of Lachung
Caption: I walked uphill and took slight right through a narrow path fenced with thorn bushes and tiny purple flowers where saw a tiny hut (Chutha) next to the stream, in it was a lady grinding flour.
Video of Lachung
Video of Yumthang
Picture of Yumthang
Caption: Hot spring of Sikkim
Picture of Yumthang
Video of Yumthang
Picture of Yumthang
Caption: Rainforest of Sikkim
Video of Yumthang
Picture of Yumthang
Caption: Sweetest smile in Sikkim.
He : Where are you from? Are you a research student?
Me: I’m from Kerala. No No, I’m here to see your beautiful village and jungle.
He is from Lepcha community in Sikkim, I forgot his name. I stayed in his village for two days. He invited me for tea. I had to pass, because I just arrived and still has luggage on my back.
He: Kerala??? Wow!! My teachers were from Kerala. Mr. Thomas, Mr. Issac. Probably they are not alive now. But I remember their words and what they said about your place. It’s green like here.
I can’t believe, he still remember his teachers name, and was very influenced by them.
Me: Of course. Our forest is very similar to yours, only the ferns are very big here. So big! May the altitude.
I will visit your home, next time I see you. How I was welcomed
Picture of Yumthang
Picture of Yumthang
Caption: I woke up to the dungchen (tibetan horn for the prayer call) from the monastery from the nearby mountain. The soft mellow sunlight through the curtains, made it difficult to open my eyes. Gathering all energy I unlatched the door to the massive mountains, huge fern trees and hundreds of colorful flowers.
From the luscious green forest to the biggest moths and exotic ferns in the himalayas. I couldn’t believe the green in this himalayan region. Dzongu – a little known Paradise of the Lepchas, earliest ethnic group to have settled in Sikkim.
Picture of Yumthang
Picture of Yumthang
Picture of Yumthang
Caption: Memories
Picture of Ravangla
Picture of Ravangla
Caption: The sun is setting over the Mt.Pandim in the quaint village of Barfung, nestled in the foothills of Himalayas, watching nature and their children
Picture of Ravangla
Caption: Mt. Kanchenjunga
Picture of Pelling
Video of Tsongmo Lake
Picture of Sikkim
Caption: In this India’s first fully Organic state, the people of Sikkim have viewed the mountain as both a god and the abode of gods. They respected Nature and worked for protecting it and can be seen everywhere. Nabina nazar
