Tsomo Lake
2 hours after
In the snow
Snow abounds
Downhills covered with snow
Wild flowers
Wild flowers abound
Wild flowers
The hill below covered with snow
Road to hill in summer
The Rumtek monastery
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- Tsomo Lake
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- 2 hours after
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- In the snow
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- Snow abounds
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- Downhills covered with snow
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- Wild flowers
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- Wild flowers abound
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- Wild flowers
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- The hill below covered with snow
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- Road to hill in summer
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- The Rumtek monastery
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- The serene lake
I was on a official tour to Gangtok in Sikkim,India.I did not find anything pleasant there except the hills,roads with many dangerous curves and at the evening chiiling cold after a rain.It was summer.Every one used to speak on natural beauties of Gangtok which I did not find one.Then I checked up.Sea level height is also less than that of Darjeeling another hill town.
Then came a sunday.I was determined to go for a visit since every one was speaking on ice and flowers just around 50/60 KM away.I went in the morning in a heavy vehicle since I was given to understand that light vehicles skid on snow.
The temperature gradually changed.And a stage came ,the road was full of snow.Earlier I had cold,but my cold was gone.It was snow and snow all the way and the whole road just half a kilometer far from Tsomo Lake was so full of snow and there was incessant snow fall that we could not proceed that day and again on another holiday we started.
People speak about Nathula Pass( the Chinese border)and Yumtham and its rare wild flowers in snow.Though I could not go to that point ,here I present some of the photographs taken on way to Tsomo lake.On the way return ,I could just take a still photo of the lake.
People have heard about Srinagar,Sangrila Pass,Kulu Manali and places in Himachal.But a weekend visit to this place is worth visiting.Just stay for night at Gangtok to move on to your choice place.Barely two hours drive and it is snow all around even in summer.
Hotels are reasonable and ranges from one\’s choice to 300 INR to 5000 INR and the route is from Siliguri (West Bengal)connected by Air (Bagdogra Airport)to around 3 hours journey by Car.
I am editing the photos ,but what ever I have in crude form in my mobile Cam as well as Canon Still and Video,I am presenting below for friends to see and comment.
It is good season to go there in summer preferably in April and also in December when the cold reaches its highest limit.It is good for a traveller and also for a trekker or adventurist.
