8/10/2019 Note on My Sikkim Tour
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Note on my Sikkim tourScenic Sikkim, the mystical wonderland
,nestling in the heart Of the majestic
eastern Himalayas and is wedged between West Bengal, Nepal,
china (ibet!and
Bhutan "lepchas , the inhabitants of the state called it
#Nye$mal$el% or the #hea&en%"'or the Nepalese, this green and
promising land was #Sikkim% or the #New alace%
and for the ibetans it was #)en*ong% or the# land of rice%
"writer +ames Hilton has
rightly described it as the nearest thing to paradise"
Shangri$la, the &alley of eternal
youth in Hilton%s #lost hori*on ,sounds much like Sikkim%s pass
of the wild alder ,
phonetically rendered as sangali$la "the early history of the
state dates back to -.
the century ,with the signing of a blood$ brotherhood treaty
between the lepchas
chief thekong tek and ibetan prince khye /bumas at kabi lungstok
in north
Sikkim "the year -0-1 ,was marked by the historical &isit of
the three re&ered saints
to yuksam in west Sikkim ,where they met phutsog namgyal , the
si2th generation
descendant of the khye bumsa and formally consecrated him as the
3rst 4hogyal of
the Sikkim at yuksam in -015,thus heralding the beginning of the
Namgyal dynasty
in Sikkim which ruled for about ..5 years after the 6ndian
independence tashi
Namgyal signed a treaty with 6ndia and rati3ed the status of
Sikkim as a
protectorate with 4hogyal as the monarch "in the early -789%s
,the political ranks
and 3le of the state demanded the remo&al of the monarchy
and on -0 they may,
-78:, Sikkim became the 55ndstate of the 6ndian union
Sikkim the tiny Himalayan state mainly consists of
mountainous
terrain ,interspersed with ra&ines and &erdant
&alleys "the snow clad
khangchend*onga (;anchenjunga! ,the worlds third highest
mountain dominates
the tiny state and is considered as the guardian deity of
Sikkim"the main ri&ers ofSikkim are teesta and rangit the
people ha&e remained cooconed for centuries by
the protecti&e mountains and ha&e de&eloped
inimitable lifestyle of there own
,untouched by e2ternal in
