Private tour · Sikkim
Sikkim Tour
The Sikkim circuit, built privately: Gangtok and Tsomgo Lake, the Yumthang valley in North Sikkim, and a sunrise over Kanchenjunga from Tiger Hill above Darjeeling. Five days to ten, around your dates.
- Duration
- From 7 days
- length to suit you
- Starts from
- Bagdogra (IXB) or NJP
- Highest point
- 12,310 ft
- Tsomgo Lake
- Best season
- March – May, October – December
When to go
March – May, October – December
Yumthang is under snow from January to March and in rhododendron bloom in April and May. Monsoon slides can close the North Sikkim road.
- Tour type
- Private tour
- Starts from
- Bagdogra (IXB) or NJP
- Permit
- Permits for Tsomgo Lake and North Sikkim; Nathu La on request
- Difficulty
- Easy–Moderate
On the trip
What you’ll come home talking about
Tsomgo Lake at 12,310 ft, and Baba Mandir
The Yumthang valley and the road to Lachung
Kanchenjunga from Singhik and Tashi View Point
Sunrise from Tiger Hill above Darjeeling
Namchi, Ravangla and Pelling on the longer circuits
Altitude along the road
Highest point Tsomgo Lake, 12,310 ft
- Bagdogra
- Gangtok
- Tsomgo Lake
- Lachung
- Yumthang Valley
- Darjeeling
- Tiger Hill
- Mirik
The route
Where the road takes you
The stops this trip is built around, in order. Your day-by-day plan, stays and pace come with your free quote.
Bagdogra
Start · 413 ft
Gangtok
5,413 ft · East Sikkim
The capital, strung down a ridge, and the base for the whole state. M.G. Marg, the pedestrian promenade at its centre, is where evenings end. A day here takes in the Do Drul Chorten and its 108 prayer wheels, the Institute of Tibetology, Tashi View Point for Kanchenjunga, the Ganesh Tok and Hanuman Tok temples, and the ropeway over the town.
Gangtok in the morning, from Tibet Road Tsomgo Lake
12,310 ft · East Sikkim, near the Tibet border
Also called Changu, a sacred glacial lake reached through the Kyongnosla Alpine Sanctuary and frozen for much of the winter. Yak rides and a ropeway at the lakeside; further up the same road is the Baba Harbhajan Singh Mandir, the shrine to the soldier remembered as the hero of Nathu La. Go early — the weather turns most days after noon.
Tsomgo Lake, East Sikkim Lachung
8,858 ft · North Sikkim
An alpine village at the end of a long day up the North Sikkim highway — past the Singhik viewpoint for Kanchenjunga, Chungthang where the Lachen Chu and Lachung Chu meet, and the Bhim Nala falls. It is the base for Yumthang, with a monastery and a handicraft centre of its own.
Yumthang Valley
11,693 ft · North Sikkim, above Lachung
North Sikkim's valley of flowers: under snow from January to March and ablaze with rhododendrons in April and May, with a medicinal sulphur hot spring on the way in. Zero Point lies a further thirty kilometres on, towards the Tibet border.
The Yumthang valley and the Lachung Chu Darjeeling
6,699 ft
Tiger Hill
8,422 ft
Mirik
4,905 ft
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