About Sikkim
Sikkim offers the magical feel of a Himalayan fairytale land. It’s an amazing place of hidden valleys, mystical monasteries, snow fed lakes and a mountain setting covered with flowers and forests.
The last Shangri – La, is a place timeless as nature, and populated with friendly and smiling people with an innate sense of hospitality.
Mt. Khangchendzonga the world’s third highest mountain peak at 8,586 mt. dominates the landscape and is revered as the Sikkims guardian deity.
It is a land of soaring mountains, plunging rivers, lush tropical forests imbued with a brilliant profusion of vivid flowers, birds, butterflies and decorated with verdant terraced hillsides, simple stilted villages and colorful temples and monasteries.
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 been 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 primulae bloom above 3,000 mt and celestial blue poppies color the alpine heights. The abundance of colour, scent and variety attracts more then 300 bird species and 500 species of butterfly. Sikkim-thus is rightfully a paradise on Earth.
Sikkim is a land abundant in beauty and adventure. Whether your passion is for long treks or short walks-ever changing landscape; white water rafting or mountaineering amongst the worlds highest peaks, photographing nature’s diversity, or just hanging out, meeting people of other cultures and enjoying festivals- this is your destination.
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 been 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 primulae bloom above 3,000 mt and celestial blue poppies color the alpine heights. The abundance of colour, scent and variety attracts more then 300 bird species and 500 species of butterfly. Sikkim-thus is rightfully a paradise on Earth.
Sikkim is a land abundant in beauty and adventure. Whether your passion is for long treks or short walks-ever changing landscape; white water rafting or mountaineering amongst the worlds highest peaks, photographing nature’s diversity, or just hanging out, meeting people of other cultures and enjoying festivals- this is your destination.
