📍 Heritage📍 Archaeological📍 Nature

Rabdentse Ruins

Pelling, Sikkim, India

4.5 (0)

Overview

The moss-grown second capital of Sikkim (1670–1814), reached by a chestnut-forest walk — throne stones facing a Kanchenjunga horizon.

Why visit: A lost royal city in bird-loud forest, minutes from Pemayangtse.

Things to do

›Palace ruins
›Namgyal throne stones
›Forest approach trail

Heritage WalkBirdwatching

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Travel Information

Best time

Oct–Dec, Mar–May

Entry fee

Free

Est. budget

Free–₹100

Duration

1–2 hrs

Nearby attractions

Within

1.2 km

📍 Monastery

4.7

Pemayangtse Monastery

Pelling, Sikkim

The 'perfect sublime lotus' (1705) — head monastery of the Nyingma order, whose top floor holds the astonishing seven-tiered wooden Zangdok Palri.

Oct–Dec, Mar–May; Cham (Feb)1–2 hrsExplore

2.8 km

📍 Landmark

4.6

Pelling Skywalk & Chenrezig

Pelling, Sikkim

India's first glass skywalk, curling beneath a 137-ft Chenrezig statue with Kanchenjunga filling the northern sky.

Oct–Dec, Mar–May2 hrsExplore

3 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Monastery

4.4

Sangachoeling Monastery

Pelling, Sikkim

Sikkim's second-oldest gompa (1697) on the ridge above Pelling — a pilgrim's forest climb to smoke-dark ancient prayer halls.

Oct–Dec, Mar–May2 hrsExplore

3.6 km

📍 Monastery

4.6

Tashiding Monastery

Tashiding, Sikkim

The holiest monastery in Sikkim (1641), on a heart-shaped hill between two rivers — one sight of its Thongwa Rangdol chorten is said to cleanse all sin.

Oct–Dec, Mar–May; Bhumchu (Feb–Mar)2–3 hrsExplore

5.1 km

💧 Waterfall

4.2

Rimbi Falls & Orange Garden

Pelling, Sikkim

The Rimbi river's roadside cascade beside Sikkim's first hydel wheel and a citrus-and-cardamom garden.

Sep–Dec (oranges Nov–Dec)30 min – 1 hrExplore

5.5 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Village

4.3

Darap Village

Pelling, Sikkim

A Limboo heritage village of cardamom farms and paddy terraces 8 km from Pelling — Sikkim's model eco-homestay community.

Oct–Dec, Mar–MayOvernightExplore

6 km

💧 Waterfall

4.4

Kanchenjunga Falls

Pelling, Sikkim

A 100-ft glacier-fed torrent on the Yuksom road, hidden until the 1990s — now West Sikkim's most-loved waterfall stop.

Mar–Jun, Sep–Dec30 min – 1 hrExplore

8 km

📍 Monastery

4.5

Ralang Monastery

Ravangla, Sikkim

One of the Kagyu order's grandest new monasteries beside its 1768 original — 200 monks, giant thangkas and the Pang Lhabsol dances.

Oct–Dec, Mar–May; Pang Lhabsol (Aug–Sep)1–2 hrsExplore

8.1 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Hot Spring

4.2

Borong Hot Springs

Ravangla, Sikkim

Borong Tsa-Chu — riverside sulphur pools below the village of Borong, reached by a forest descent, where Sikkimese winter-cure for weeks.

Dec–Feb (spring season)1–2 daysExplore

8.9 km

🏞️ Lake

4.6

Khecheopalri Lake

Pelling, Sikkim

The 'wish-fulfilling lake' sacred to Buddhists and Hindus alike — birds famously pluck every leaf that falls on its mirror surface.

Oct–Dec, Mar–May2–3 hrsExplore

9 km

📍 Heritage

4.4

Norbugang Coronation Throne

Yuksom, Sikkim

The stone throne under a giant cryptomeria where Sikkim was born in 1642 — the first Chogyal's footprint still pressed in rock.

Mar–May, Oct–Dec1 hrExplore

9.1 km

📍 Village

4.6

Yuksom

Yuksom, Sikkim

Sikkim's first capital, where three lamas crowned the first Chogyal in 1642 — trailhead of the Goecha La trek and keeper of the kingdom's origin.

Mar–May, Oct–Dec1–2 daysExplore