Thambi View Point
Zuluk, Sikkim, India
Nearby attractions
Zuluk Old Silk Route
Zuluk, Sikkim
The hamlet on the historic Lhasa trade road whose 32 hairpin loops stack up a bare mountainside — India's most photographed zigzag.
Nathang Valley
Gnathang, Sikkim
The 'Ladakh of the East' — a 13,500-ft treeless bowl of yak pastures on the Silk Route, golden in autumn, white for five months.
Kupup Elephant Lake
Gangtok, Sikkim
Bitan Cho — an elephant-shaped sacred lake at 13,000 ft on the Old Silk Route, beside the world's highest golf course at Kupup.
Ranka Lingdum Monastery
Gangtok, Sikkim
A vast, cinematic Zurmang Kagyud monastery in forested Ranka — sweeping courtyards and gilded halls familiar from many film shoots.
Tsomgo Lake
Sikkim
A sacred glacial bowl at 3,753 m on the old Nathula road — mirror-still between snow slopes, ringed by prayer flags and yak bells, frozen solid in winter and rimmed with primulas in June. Sikkim's beloved high-altitude day trip from Gangtok.
Baba Harbhajan Singh Mandir
Gangtok, Sikkim
The shrine of the 'Hero of Nathula' — a soldier believed to guard the border beyond death, his boots polished and bed made daily by the army.
Aritar Lampokhari Lake
Aritar, Sikkim
Sikkim's oldest natural lake, boot-shaped and pine-ringed at Aritar — the state's only boating lake, gateway to the Silk Route.
Nathula Pass
Sikkim
The historic Silk Route gate to Tibet at 4,310 m — Indian and Chinese posts face each other across a saddle of snow and wind, reached past Tsomgo Lake and Baba Mandir on one of the world's highest motorable border roads.
Hanuman Tok
Gangtok, Sikkim
An army-maintained Hanuman temple at 7,200 ft where the monkey god rested carrying Sanjeevani — the finest Kanchenjunga view near Gangtok.
Tsuklakhang Palace Monastery
Gangtok, Sikkim
The Chogyal kings' royal chapel on the palace ridge — coronations, royal weddings and the Kagyed dances still happen beneath its murals.
Enchey Monastery
Gangtok, Sikkim
The 'solitary temple' of 1909 above Gangtok, blessed by flying tantric Lama Druptob Karpo — pines, prayer flags and Kanchenjunga glimpses.
Ganesh Tok
Gangtok, Sikkim
A tiny Ganesha shrine on a 6,500-ft spur — its balcony wraps around Gangtok's amphitheatre with Kanchenjunga floating beyond.