Sikkim

river · hills

The Naga waterfall plunges down steep rocks, thundering and crashing its way to the valley floor, in Sikkim. The foam that is created from the roaring waters is just something else.

river · monsoon

A compelling Lachung waterfall as seen in time lapse, as clouds float by in the season of monsoon profusion in Lachung town in Sikkim, India.

forest · flowers

A female brown coloured Kaleej Pheasant in a high altitude Rhododendron forest and shrubbery at around 8500 feet altitude at the Shingba Rhododendron Sanctuary in north Sikkim, India.

music

Traditional therapies and healing methodologies of India at work in Sikkim, with a hint of shamanism and tantra, possibly even a localized version of tantrism.

livestock · highway

Sikkim in India is our youngest state to be added in, and so much natural beauty does it carry. Brilliant yellow tall blooming stalks of Yellow Poppy or Meconopsis paniculata : Sikkim has traffic jam issues too!

flowers · hills

Meconopsis paniculata or Himalayan yellow poppy growing wild on a Himalayan slope in north Sikkim, as well as Oriental garden Lily : Two yellow stunners Meconopsis paniculata in Sikkim Himalaya, seen in end Jun 2002 with droplets of monsoon…

highway

Slip sliding away: Sikkim's muddy roads in summer-time early rainy season, with traffic jams aplenty, en route from the south of Sikkim to central Sikkim.

hills · flowers

Meconopsis paniculata in Sikkim Himalaya, seen in end Jun 2022 with droplets of monsoon rain water, in the Shingba Rhododendron Sanctuary beyond Lachung village, en route Yumthang in North Sikkim.

flowers

With his cat for company, this Sikkimese yak herder dries churpi cheese on long strings, with the heat from his stove.

river · highway

Colourful haphazard constructions of the newer road-side towns and houses of Sikkim, as one drives down from central Sikkim through Melli and Jorethang along the Teesta river.

lake · river

wildfilmsindia yet again visited the high altitude lake of Gurudongmar in north Sikkim, in the summer of 2022. Situated on a lip of the Tibetan plateau that comes in to India, this is unique high altitude frontier country.

farmland · livestock

In neat little hutments along the roadside, fresh produce is sold along the roads of Sikkim, directly by the farmers themselves. Watch Sikkimese farmers harvest and collect phool gobhi in large baskets carried on their backs.

lake · river

This rare old footage of Changu Lake (Tsomgo Lake) in East Sikkim captures a peaceful moment from the past.

flowers · farmland

Unloading plants arriving from Kalimpong, at the Wilderness Orchard in India: Azaleas, Camellias, Japanese Maple, Cymbidium, denrobium orchids and more.

lake · river

Gurudongmar Lake in north Sikkim - One of India's most beautiful and among world's highest lakes

river · hills

The blue-green glacial icy melt waters and the Inula daisies in flower along the shores of this high altitude trans Himalayan lake make for an other-worldly vision of the old India with a Himalaya that was unsullied.

flowers

What a fine specimen of flowering wild Hen Magnolia we came across at the Shingba Rhododendron Sanctuary beyond Lachung in north Sikkim! Magnolia globosa, the globe magnolia or hen magnolia, is a species of Magnolia native to Bhutan, southw…

hills · farmland

Introducing Sikkim as a land of lush rice fields, colourful prayer flags fluttering in breeze and tall peaks and meadows below them. An area of exquisite combination of natural beauty and a salubrious atmosphere.

hills · snow

The Himalayas, also Himalaya, "abode of the snow" is a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.

ceremony · hills

The Guru Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) is located in Namchi, South Sikkim. The local people called Samdruptse Monastery a 135ft tall statue of Guru Padmasambhava.

river

Rafter jumps out from raft and swims in the Teesta River in Sikkim, river rafters watch his act River rafting on the Teesta / Tista River below Kalimpong, in 1990's West Bengal and Sikkim

forest

We found this massive tree with a Hobbit hollow inside it, in a thick forested area of Dombang in north Sikkim - must be 500 years old! Four people can stand within the tree hollow! Looking up to the crown, there is a vertical chute within…