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Nature Attractions In Gangtok

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Gangtok is a city, municipality, the capital and the largest town of the Indian state of Sikkim. It also is the headquarters of the East Sikkim district. Gangtok is located in the eastern Himalayan range, at an elevation of 1,650 m . The town's population of 100,000 are from different ethnicities such as Nepalis, Lepchas and Bhutia. Nestled within higher peaks of the Himalaya and enjoying a year-round mild temperate climate, Gangtok is at the centre of Sikkim's tourism industry. Gangtok rose to prominence as a popular Buddhist pilgrimage site after the construction of the Enchey Monastery in 1840. In 1894, the ruling Sikkimese Chogyal, Thutob Namgyal, ...
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  • 1. Tsongmo Lake Gangtok
    Tsomgo Lake, also known as Tsongmo Lake or Changu Lake, is a glacial lake in the East Sikkim district of the Indian state of Sikkim, some 40 kilometres from the capital Gangtok. Located at an elevation of 3,753 m , the lake remains frozen during the winter season. The lake surface reflects different colours with change of seasons and is held in great reverence by the local Sikkimese people. Buddhist monks prognosticated after studying the changing colours of the lake.
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  • 3. Banjhakri Water Falls Gangtok
    The Banjhakri Falls and Energy Park is a recreation centre and tourist attraction near Gangtok, in the state of Sikkim, India. The park's statuary and other displays document the Ban Jhakri, or traditional shamanic healer who worships spirits living in caves around the falls. Ban means forest, and jhākri means healer.The park is in a thickly forested part of Swastik, next to an army camp, about 7 kilometres from Gangtok on National Highway 31 to North Sikkim.
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  • 6. Kyongnosla Alpine Sanctuary Gangtok
    The Kyongnosla Alpine Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary, located in East Sikkim, India. It is situated around the area adjoining the Tsomgo lake along the Nathula Road. Located about 31 km east of Gangtok, the capital of Sikkim, this sanctuary covers an area of about 31 km2 , and extends from the 15th Mile police check point up to and along the ridges bordering the Rong Chu Valley and Lake Tsomgo. Rich in both flora and fauna, rare, endangered ground orchids and rhododendrons interspersed among tall junipers and taller silver firs are among the important plants present. Rhododendron niveum and Cypripedium tibeticum , which is on the verge of extinction, have also been introduced here.
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  • 8. White Hill Gangtok
    Aemona lena, the white dryad, is a butterfly found in Asia that belongs to the Morphinae subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies family.
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  • 11. Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve Gangtok
    Khangchendzonga National Park also Kanchenjunga Biosphere Reserve is a National Park and a Biosphere reserve located in Sikkim, India. It was inscribed to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list in July 2016, becoming the first Mixed Heritage site of India. The park gets its name from the mountain Kangchenjunga which is 8,586 metres tall, the third-highest peak in the world. The total area of this park is 849.5 km2 .
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  • 13. Khangchendzonga National Park Gangtok
    Khangchendzonga National Park also Kanchenjunga Biosphere Reserve is a National Park and a Biosphere reserve located in Sikkim, India. It was inscribed to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list in July 2016, becoming the first Mixed Heritage site of India. The park gets its name from the mountain Kangchenjunga which is 8,586 metres tall, the third-highest peak in the world. The total area of this park is 849.5 km2 .
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  • 15. Fambong Lho Wildlife Sanctuary Gangtok
    Fambong Lho Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife reserve in the East Sikkim district of the state of Sikkim in India. This sanctuary is around 30 km west from Gangtok that is one hour by road from the capital of Sikkim. Total notified area of this sanctuary is around 51 square kilometres, few small hamlets are there inside this sanctuary; which are Dikchu, Pangthang, Mangan etc. This wildlife sanctuary has continuation with Khangchendzonga National Park of north sikkim. Management authority is governed by State Forest Department which comes under protected area type Wildlife Sanctuary. .
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