It was only after waking up today that I realized the Yumthang Valley I have heard so much about is only 28 kilometers away. That meant the trip will be over in about three hours with nothing to do for the rest of the day. For a town that sleeps at 8, thats a sobering thought.
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North Sikkim was very very inviting. Having heard so many stories about it, I couldn’t wait to get started. With the permit in my hand, I was feeling like a little kid with a new toy. Like I was the first one in the line to get a new Apple product. Since I was dreaming on the bike, I promptly went down.
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It was home ministry time today. And to my surprise, the visit to the “Confidential” department within the Home Ministry proved to be a nice…
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Morning as usual came at 10. Light breakfast of sandwiches and a cup of tea and I was off. The winding roads were fresh like…
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Since I am the laziest person known to me, there wasn’t much for me to do in Yuksam. So I take a tour of the…
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Its a Sunday. There is no permit today also and wasting another day for it is not a very nice way to spend the day.…
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Leave a CommentTragedy has struck. Ok, let me rephrase that. Stupidity has struck. I have lost all pictures since Diwali at home till the day I landed up at Gangtok. That means I have no pictures of this day when I did the maximum manual labour. Left the pictures on the desktop of a cyber cafe to be written on to a CD later. And they promptly deleted it. What was I thinking!
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I was in striking distance to the Himalayas again. Siliguri, at the base of the mountains was about 250 kilometers away. I could get there by about 2 in the afternoon and reach Darjeeling by evening. It was a good prospect.
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As I packed my bags and mounted the bike all over again, it felt strange. Almost like it felt on day one leaving from Mumbai. Had it really been that long? I think I stayed a wee bit too long. Lethargy was creeping in. Time to shake my ass and get back into back breaking mode.
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