The other day I felt nostalgic seeing the Nathulla pass being opened up for trade at the Sikkim Tibet border. About a couple of years ago we had a great holiday there in Sikkim. Its unconquered nature and pristine beauty of hills mountins streams and lakes and forests with just a few monasteries, it was simply a wonderful place which I never thought could actually exist.
I know people who have been to Europe, especially the alps would say that the picture postcard beauty of those places are amazing ....and i guess its right but the experience in Sikkim was something differnet. In this world of busy people commuting as if the world around didnt exist and the constant ringing of phones this was an experience of perhaps a passage back in space.....to an era where life goes on at a leisurely pace with solitude and silence enabling one to devour the real natures beauty in the mountain fresh air, the chirping of birds and buzzing of insects to the croaking of amphibia and the chimes of the secred bells from the monasteries which was disrupted only very occassionally by a groaning of a motor vehicle somewhere in the valley acting as a reminder of the times we actually belong to. The experience was if I had to describe in one word, AWESOME
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