Tag: Gangtok

• 10 Reasons Why We Love The Mountains

  

  Thanks to the lousy day we had yesterday, we have been trying to escape mentally to the mountains. If you know us, we feel ourselves at home in the mountains. 2021 has been difficult for all of us but we have managed to cope on most of the days. However, occasionally, like yesterday, it gets […]

  An Ordinary Girl

  May 22, 2021

  Travel

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• My Gangtok Chronicle – Chapter 6

  

  I’d expected more grandeur from one so famous.

  An Ordinary Girl

  February 9, 2018

  Travel

  accessible, airport, alert, almighty, alone time, anxious, appeal, art, ask, attempt, attention, awkward, Bagdogra, beautiful, better, blessing, boy, brave, buddhist, cab, capture, care, caution, change, chapter, cheat, chronicle, cleanliness, cloud, concern, connectivity, contentment, controversy, courtyard, cover, creativity, credibility, death, delhi ncr, delight, demand, desperate, destination, detail, different, difficult, discipline, dread, eager, early, easy, eating, effort, embodiment, epitome, exhausted, exile, expect, famous, finesse, flight, fresco, friendliness, fun, funny, Gangtok, gape, girl, glum, google, grandeur, grateful, happiness, hesitate, Himalayas, hotel, identity card, instinct, ITBP, itinerary, kagyu karmapa, kanchenjunga, Kangyur Oral Transmission, ladakh, lifelike, local, long climb, mobile, monk, morning, mythology, nun, pakyong, photographer, pleased, pollution, pose, positive, prepare, preservation, prohibit, receptive, remark, return, rumtek monastery, seasoned, sectarian violence, shrine, Sightseeing, Sikkim, simplicity, smile, solo travel, solo travel tips, solo woman travel, Spiti, stranded, strive, subconscious, surprise, tarpaulin, terrain, thank, think, transfer, travel agency, true, trust, underwhelm, vehicle, visit, vivid, wall, willingness, wish, World, worry

• My Gangtok Chronicle – Chapter 5

  

  any sight different from the usual is worth seeing…

  An Ordinary Girl

  February 2, 2018

  Travel

  attention, attract, bakthang falls, beautiful, bhutan, book, bright, buddhism, century, chronicle, clear, click, climb, clouds, common, curse, dawn, do drul chorten, energy, erase, exhibit, fridge magnet, friends, ganesh tok, Gangtok, glory, hinduism, holy, huff & puff, inaccessible, India, indian, instructions, joy, kanchenjunga, knock, lights, lookout, lord ganesha, love, luck, mountain, museum, namgyal institute of tibetology, necklace, nepal, peak, photography, polite, prohibit, purse strings, read, realize, reasonable, relics, run, sense, Sightseeing, Sikkim, solo travel, souvenir, spectacular, splurge, summit, tashi view point, temple, thank, tibet, time, tote, tourist, tradition, trip, unobstructed, unusual, vertical, view, wait, wind, wonder, worthy

• My Gangtok Chronicle – Chapter 4

  

  Faith surely makes us do unimaginable things!

  An Ordinary Girl

  January 30, 2018

  Travel

  advertise, animal love, annual leave, anxiety, autumn, baba mandir, beautiful, belief, Chinese army, chronicle, content, dream, Europe, evevning, excursion, faith, fall colors, flag meeting, focus, Gangtok, gorgeous, Harbhajan Singh, heart, help, hesitation, hike, India, indian army, loveliness, MG Marg, mist, moment, mountain, north India, Off-road drive, open mind, people, photography, potential, protect, regret, reliability, retire, safety, samadhi, selfie, Sikkim, solo travel, supernatural, tourism, tsomgo lake, uniform, unimaginable, USA, village, waterfall, yak

• My Gangtok Chronicle – Chapter 3

  

  Indians are such a curious bunch. They wanted to know if I worked, if I was married, if I had children, why I had moved to their car…

  An Ordinary Girl

  January 19, 2018

  Travel

  abandon, agenda, astonishment, brave, certificate, chat, children, china, climb, compliment, contentment, Couple, courage, creepy, curious, cynicism, deep breathing, delhi pollution, demeanor, difficulty, education, faint, friend, friendship, Gangtok, goodbye, goodness, heart, history, holiday, identification card, indian, indian army, innocence, interact, international boundary, interview, lack of oxygen, like, little joy, luxury, marriage, middle age, motive, nathu la, neighbor, openness, organic farming, photographs, plains, pride, rajasthan, salute, sip water, slow walk, smile, social, soldier, solo travel, struggle, stunning, superhuman, surprise, tribulation, tricolor, uncommon, warrior, weather, work

• My Gangtok Chronicle – Chapter 1

  

  I had one more desire which I wanted to fulfill but was unable to draw adequate courage for…

  An Ordinary Girl

  January 5, 2018

  Travel

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