2012-11-03-East Sikkim

Our first week long family vacation once Yohaan was born to the pristine area of East Sikkim where tourism has just started 4 years back.

We started our journey from Pedong, a small road side village on the way to the old Silk route in East Sikkim. Spent a day visiting the nearby places, most scenic being Sillery Village. Also spent some time to trek to Damsang Fort ruins above the village and enjoying the silence and the pine tree forest of Silence Valley.

Next 2 days were spent at Reshi besides the Reshi river at Reshi Eco Resort just lazing by the river side, small trek to Orange Orchid and fishing.

After which we headed to the true Himalayas and spent 2 days at the very cold, cloudy and windy Zuluk on the old Silk route. On one day we went for a nice and heady drive to Kupuk from Zuluk passing through the 32 or more loops in the road rising all the way to 13500 feet visiting the very scenic and barren high altitude terrain bordering China – Tukla Valley, Nathang Valley, Old Baba Mandir and Kupuk.

Last but not the least we stayed for a day at Aritar (this place deserves 2 days but due to lack of time and distance from the airport we had to cut it to 1 day). We enjoyed the pin drop silence at Aritar Lake and the forest around. A small trek to Makhim top and Aritar monastery and finally very nice lunch and beer by the lake side resort put the finishing touches to a very nice and memorable trip.

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