This is Sikkim’s tourist advertising line and it’s plastered on everything from pedestrian bridges to trashcans. The capitol, Gantok, is definitely a tourist town – downtown is full of hotels, restaurants, and tour agencies – but most of the visitors are Indians on holiday from Bombay and Delhi (maybe this explains why there are [...]

After such an amazing day yesterday I hate to have to recount my evening. I was violently ill and did not sleep too well. You never know what it was that hit you in these cases – there was a slice of tomato on the vegetable cutlet I had for lunch. Haven’t had problems with [...]