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Originally Posted by mjothi YOU LUCKY FELLOW... why? Check the starting & ending pic, you know why!
What else i can say. |
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Originally Posted by akroy Wow, Another wonderful teaser, cant wait to see more and read more as well.
As Mahesh aptly said, "YOU LUCKY FELLOW"
Abhi |
He he, it sure looks like that other than the fact that as a freelancer, I am without pay everytime I travel, but then when there's such a route you just gotta go out and travel on that road!
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Originally Posted by biswajit Good start, Waiting for full!!
Are you planning for Leh trip in this sept? |
Yes Leh is supposed to happen at end Sept with JSL accompanying me on his 4wd Safari, but with this travel taking place the funds have stilll become in doubt. And definitely I need 2 people to be travelling with us to share costs.
BTW, you too for Leh in Sept this year - you do travel long distance once a year with Safari! Do try N Sikkim once or you could even club this East Sikkim route with that of N Sikkim.
https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/trave...ni-tajpur.html (Safari Dicor2.2 VTT-TMT 1.5year Grand OT[Extreme-Exclusive N Sikkim&Mandarmoni/Tajpur) Quote:
Originally Posted by arin_12 Oh God !!! What a road Looks like snake and ladder game |
Thats the road after Zuluk and its all 1st/2nd gear. The road is otherwise empty other than the road construction trucks and army trucks, but you gotta honk at each and every of those blind corners - though the whole route we encountered just about nothing coming downhill.
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Originally Posted by jkdas Thats one beautiful pic. And Silk Route; remember about it from my history lessons during school days. |
That sure is a fantastic pic, though I would say only around may be 20-30% of the surrounding scenery has come through. Gotta travel on this road again in November time when the skies are crystal clear or in March-April for the snow and the rhododendrons.
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Originally Posted by hvkumar ADC, great route. Had I known about this route, would have spent an extra 2 days in Sikkim too! Quite a discovery!
Very informative map, but I don't see Rishi marked there.
And did they insist on the permits when you returned on the Changu route? |
Mr Kumar, Rishi is the very small village of 10-15 houses on the Rishi Khola [River]. Rishi Khola forms the boundary between West Bengal, Pedong side, and East Sikkim. On the map, the blue dot showing the Rishi Eco tourist is the acutal village of Rishi, again a very small village just having some few scattered houses alongside the hills and forests.
Any permits required to go from Rangpo to Zuluk?
Yes permits are required as this is a completely army route whereby entry is very restricted. The route is very senstive too as on the upper reaches of the route you can spot even the Chinese bunker looking down on the road.
The permit for this route can be done at both Gangtok and at Rongli. Of course since I was at the starting position near Rongli, had the permit done from SDPO Rongli.
Of course papers were seen and the old permit xerox of N Sikkim also helped. Also I was greatly helped by the owner of Rishi Ecotourist house, Mr Sebastian Pradhan, an absolutely enterprising gentleman who has and continues to single handedly develop these unknown places.
At the final check post of Changu, the first check post if you go from Gangtok side, the original papers are taken back.
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Originally Posted by Saurabh M Can this route be done in an Esteem? |
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Originally Posted by Sudipto-S-Team Probably two Esteems could do it Saurabh? |
Yes Esteem can do this, just that a few stretch of the road you would have to be careful not to scrape. Also the road beyond Rongli is good as this is an exclusive Army route but then the corresponding roads like to Ramitey or Silent Valley from Pedong the roads are fit for a SUV only. Again roads beyond Tsongmo [Changu] Lake are quite worse.
So, in summary, if you stick on to the main road, the green portion marked on the map, esteem will be enough for the tour.
Whatever, surely do this route definitely around November or early December before the snowfall, the best views of Kachenzondga is from Thambi view point beyond Zuluk. We got a slight glimpse of it due to clouds [whatelse in monsoon time] but that sure was very entralling too.
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Originally Posted by kpzen incredible pics to start with. |
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Originally Posted by shabahmad Certainly this travelogue will again be amazing. |
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Originally Posted by pjay_in Breathtaking teaser pictures. Now it's hard to wait for the real content! |
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Originally Posted by null Waiting for the detailed report! Pl. put up the entire travelogue with loads of pictures. |
Thanks again.
The only regret that I have is that you need a DSLR with a wide angle and to have a Canon 6 MP camera with 35 mm at its widest is absolutely not doing justice to the vistas encountered.