"Heaven" is the second word for gangtok. 18 Mar. 09 morning, me and rahul both set for trip to darjeeling, our flight at 10:25 and we don't have confirmed STA (staff ticket), it has not been made yet and we are happy that flying again for some trip. I know how we both of us ran that day and somehow on last second got our STA signed and finally got tickets at 10. Thought still we have 25 minutes and can manage as we did. The good thing was we went in Business class, well it has its own charm but due to non - availability of inflight entertainment, last half an hour was boring.
Anyways now we are in Bagdogra from where we have to go to darjleeng, no hotel was booked and we were not aware where and how to go. Somehow got some information from Bagdogra (jetairways) staff and reached bust stand from where buses were available to many small cities near by it, even for Nepal. While searching bus to darjeeling, we got some travek agent who told us about bad situation about darjeeling and convinced for gangto, and after seeing it in pics we agreed to go. So lately at around 8, we reached there and was tierd and had really very bad food there and slept hoping that tomorrow it will be a great day as we will be going to explore gangtok, an unplanned city. Here I want to tell you we got room for 400 per person per day where food was included.
Next morning, a lovely day to start and good thing was that I got something good to eat "poori aalo" it was well prepared as people here generally eats fish due to cold temperatue but I am veg. and was happy to get veg. We started our journey and we were going to "Yumthang" a lake, or place river covered with ice all over. It took around 5 hrs to reach there but in between really saw few beautiful places as was looking like that we entered some painting competetion hall as surroundings were cool. Atlast reached there and saw the beautiful place as was described in pic, we saw earlier. From there we paid to go to "Zero Point", a place where temprature is Zero, we wait there for only 10 minutes as diesel or car was about to freeze, but i should say the place that was. I havent seen such beauty in my entire life and dont think will ever get chance to see.
We stayed Yumthang for a day, then next day back to "gangtok" which was around 6 hrs drive away from Zero point. It was 8 at night when we reached out hotel, and didnt' get time to see loacal of it but what we had seen last day was something really amazing. we had food and slept as next day have to catch flight from Bagdogra > Kolkata > Delhi.
Next morning, did shopping for an hour and left for delhi. God's grace we got seats at kolkata as flight was overbooked. Reached delhi at around 2045 and joined duty from 2100hrs. Lol was a great exp. as enjoyed and worked too. Thanks to Jet Airways. Labels: gangtok, trip
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