The largest monastery in Sikkim and the main seat in exile of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. It was rebuilt in the 1960s as a replica of the order's original monastery in Tibet. The main prayer hall is richly painted, and the Golden Stupa holds the relics of the 16th Karmapa.
It's on a hillside facing Gangtok, about an hour away by road. Bring your passport, which may be checked at the gate. Monks chant in the hall in the mornings and late afternoons.
A glacial lake at 3,753 m on the road from Gangtok towards the Nathu La pass on the Tibet border.
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Stay in any of Darjeeling's cheap guesthouses, but treat yourself to tea in one of the old colonial hotels.
One of Darjeeling's oldest tea gardens, founded in 1854, on the hillside just below the town.
A narrow-gauge mountain railway, opened in 1881, that winds up from the plains to Darjeeling on tracks only 2 feet wide, through loops and zigzags, a…
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