2005-02-27 04:00:00 PDT Sikkim, India -- "Undulating terrain" are the words my trekking... Trekking India's high road / Former kingdom of Sikkim has Buddhist villages, spirited porters and world's ...

The kingdom of Sikkim sits tucked away high in the snow-capped Himalayas, hugging the border of Nepal, Tibet, and Bhutan. Formerly an independent monarchy, Sikkim became a state of India in 1975.

Sikkim might not be a big state, but it punches way above its weight. It's a region that is strategic, endowed with majestic ...

Sikkim is still, however, very unlike the rest of India. Bumping along a precarious road in a four-wheel-drive I was reading up on the traditional customs of this ancient kingdom which still seems ...

Published on the same day that the first SpiceJet flight arrived at Pakyong Airport was a new paperback edition of Sikkim: Requiem for a Himalayan Kingdom (2015), by Andrew Duff. This widely ...

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King Palden Thondup Namgyal, the last Chogyal (monarch) of Sikkim with his wife Hope Cooke. Nearly half-a-century after the overthrow of Palden Thondup Namgyal, the 12 th and last Chogyal of Sikkim ...

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