📍 Monastery🛕 Religious📍 Heritage

Ralang Monastery

Ravangla, Sikkim, India

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Overview

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

Why visit: Monastic Sikkim at full scale, minutes from Buddha Park.

Things to do

›New Palchen Choeling halls
›Old Ralang gompa
›Cham festivals

Monastery Visit

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Travel Information

Best time

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

Entry fee

Free

Est. budget

₹100–300

Duration

1–2 hrs

Nearby attractions

Within

2 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

2.9 km

📍 Park

4.7

Buddha Park Ravangla

Ravangla, Sikkim

Tathagata Tsal — a 130-ft golden Buddha consecrated by the Dalai Lama, set in manicured gardens against the full Kanchenjunga range.

Oct–Dec, Mar–May2 hrsExplore

4.5 km

📍 Trek

4.5

Maenam Hill Trek

Ravangla, Sikkim

A 10,600-ft summit through the Maenam sanctuary's red-panda forest — the classic day trek from Ravangla, ending at Bhaledunga's cliff.

Mar–May, Oct–Dec1 dayExplore

4.5 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

8 km

📍 Heritage

4.5

Rabdentse Ruins

Pelling, Sikkim

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

Oct–Dec, Mar–May1–2 hrsExplore

8.9 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

10.1 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Hill

4.3

Tendong Hill

Damthang, Sikkim

The Lepchas' ark — the hill that 'saved from the flood', a gentle forest trek from Damthang to a lookout tower over four districts.

Mar–May, Oct–DecHalf dayExplore

10.7 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

11 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

11.4 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

12.2 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Monastery

4.4

Dubdi Monastery

Yuksom, Sikkim

Sikkim's oldest monastery (1701), 'the hermit's cell', a 45-minute forest climb above Yuksom to hushed halls of the founding lamas.

Mar–May, Oct–Dec2–3 hrsExplore

12.4 km

📍 Tea Garden

4.6

Temi Tea Garden

Namchi, Sikkim

Sikkim's only tea estate — 440 organic acres pouring down a ridge with Kanchenjunga above and cherry blossoms lining the road each November.

Nov (cherry blossoms), Mar–May2–3 hrsExplore