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The Happy Home


As you drive up to Sikkim from Bagdogra, the mountains get quickly much steeper, kilometre on kilometre.

For the last few kilometres you drive along the swift-flowing greeny-blue Rangpo river, a tributary of the Teesta.

Quite suddenly you are at the town of Rangpo at the state border.

Airfare for Rs 100 and less!

A giant Oriental-looking tiger stands sentinel at the checkpost.

Once the border formalities are over and you roll into Sikkim, you are pretty much experiencing another land...

Text and Photographs: Vaihayasi Pande Daniel
Also read: Mussoorie: The Queen of hill stations

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