Gangtok Capital of Sikkim, Gangtok is a city fashioned out with heaps of natural quotients.A picture- perfect capital city of Sikkim.
Gangtok is situated on the ridge overlooking the Ranipool River. Built up with lush paddy terraces and river watered valleys, Gangtok commands a scenic view. As you make the visit, one sees valleys strewn out with efflorescent blossoms of multi-hued Orchids, Rhododendron and other wild blooms.
Sikkim Capital City, Gangtok is the home of wonders! A record of lakhs of tourists visiting Sikkim in the year 2008 emphasizes on Gangtoks unique propensity of attracting tourist and evidences increasing tourism graph of the state.
Today, Sikkims capital is functional stretch of multi-storeyed houses, layered against steep mountain ridges. Gangtok the conflation of a cosmopolitan vein and old-world charm where in the mists the colourful flag flogs relentlessly in the cool mountain breeze, young and old Lamas keep spinning prayer wheels in their hands, labyrinth streets are flaked with snow, on the other side can viewed the colourful Pagoda roofs and on them the heartening smiles of monks and lamas wearing silk.
In the city Enchey Monastey, Namgyal Institute of Tibetology and Do Drul Chorten are some of the enchanting spots with tourists.
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