Category: Sikkim

Sikkim is India’s smallest and most extraordinary mountain state — a former Buddhist kingdom nestled between Nepal, Tibet, and Bhutan in the eastern Himalayas, where the Kanchenjunga range dominates every clear horizon and monasteries cling to the hillsides above terraced cardamom farms. West Sikkim, in particular, offers the Sikkim that most visitors never find: the working farm villages of Rinchenpong, the ancient Pemayangtse Monastery, the rhododendron forests of Barsey, and the hospitable culture of the Lepcha, Bhutia, and Nepali communities who have always made their home on these extraordinary hills.