Trekking in Sikkim

Wilderness Trek

Most of the trekking routes are only a few tens of kilometers from major towns but going there is like travelling many hundred years back into time. The best months to trek in Sikkim are March to May and September to November. Most of the places on trekking routes in remote areas are just herders' huts or sheds and some places have nothing at all but wilderness.

Singalila Trek

This nine-day trek beginning and ending in Darjeeling takes you along the famed "Singalila range" to Sandakphu (12,000) and Phalut (11,800). On the way you will pass through spectacular forests of silver fir, rhododendrons, chestnuts, oaks, magnolias and hemlock. A springtime trek reveals not only stunning views of the mountains but whole hillsides covered with rhododendron and magnolia flowers. A post monsoon trek reveals the mountains in crispier glory when the rains have washed away the haze. The trail from Sandakphu to Phalut is an exhilarating experience and one can see four of the world's highest mountains: Everest, Makalu, Lhotse and Kanchenjunga in one glance. ...........................................................more

Ladakh is a land like no other. Bounded by two of the world's mightiest mountain ranges, the Great Himalaya and the Karakoram, it lies athwart two other, the Ladakh range and the Zanskar range.

In geological terms, this is a young land, formed only a few million years ago by the buckling and folding of the earth's crust as the Indian sub-continent pushed with irresistible force against the immovable mass of Asia. Its basic contours, uplifted by these unimaginable tectonic movements, have been modified over the millennia by the opposite process of erosion, sculpted into the form we see today by wind and water. ...............................................................more