Sikkim, an untouched, timeless land whose smiling people offer you a welcome of 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 stilled villages and colourful monasteries.

Sikkim, a land of abundance, beauty and adventure. Whether your passion is long treks or short walks in ever – changing landscape; White water rafting, or mountaineering amongst the world’s highest peaks; photographing nature’s diversity; or just hanging out, meeting people of other cultures, and enjoying festivals –sikkim is your destination.

INTRODUCTION
Under the guarding presence of “Kanchendzonga” (the 3rd highest mountain in the world) revered by Sikkimese as their protective diety,lies the small beautiful and magical former kingdom of sikkim known for its remoteness, majesty magic and mystery : Sikkim, forbidden to the outside world for decades, is now open to you with a promise of awesomely beautiful vistas of mountains, lakes, monasteries and people.

The majestic range are unforgettably beautiful, every possible variety of form and colour is theirs water falls break in to a thousand rainbows and relentless glaciers winds their way down into dark precipices, while through narrow winding gorges mighty river carry their message into distant plains. In Darjeeling, Sikkim or Bhutan Kanchenjunga dominates the scene, guardian of the five treasures, like a ‘Priceless’ necklace of shimmering pinkish pearls floating above the hazy valleys and hills: It guards, also the greatest mystery the “holy marriage of heaven and earth. “ For a holy in the clouds, where the mountains are almost within reach, Sikkim – a trekker’s paradise – offers at the same time its own wonderland of incomparable with turquoise blued lake and lonely dales.

The beauty of Bhutan, a mountain paradise, has earned for itself the epithet – “ the last Shangri-la formerly the ‘forbidden kingdom, it has at last opened its doors to select visitors. Fabled Sights await them:- the thrust of snowy peak with alpine valleys, rambling monasteries and hermits retreats clinging to crags in cliffs.

We have attempted, in this book, to bring the mountains close to the soul hungering for beauty, for peace and questing for the Spring infinite.