Gangtok (which means ‘hilltop’), capital city of sikkim, still lingers on my mind. A place abundant of beautiful hills and people.
We met Bheem at the taxi stand. A young (20) taxi driver with tons of enthusiam, we asked to transport us from the stand to our hotel, Golden Pagoda. We got a room with a market view for 600 rupees. Bhima was still waiting for us, he had suggested us a 7 point visit for 500 bucks. With just 1.5 days with us in sikkim we quickly agreed to and got started. Our second was well account with pictures in my other post “Heaven - 12,400ft above sea level!“.
For people who wish to travel to sikkim here are some list of places to eat and stay.
(M.G. road is the hub of all activities in gangtok. All shops and life comes to halt at 8pm).
Top hotels:
Tashi Delek (has great views!!)
Double: 2500+ / Suites: 4500
Hotel Tibet (Tibetan Decor- great resturant)
Hotel Tibet (2-3 mins walk from MG road)
Double: 1100-1600
Phone: 203468 / 204962
Mid range
Hotel Golden Pagoda
on MG road, with a roof top pure vegetrian resturant
Double: 600-850
email: goldenpagoda ‘at’ hotmail ‘dot’ com
Budget stay:
Green Hotel on M.G. Road
Single: rs. 150 / Double: rs. 250-300
Places to eat
Cafe Tibet for fast food (gen. see college crowd there)
Hotel Tibet is a great place for dinner (little expensive)
Bakers Cafe, MG Road - amazing place for breakfast and cakes!
Ofcourse there is lot more to sikkim beyond Gangtok. Will write about those places when I visit them 
June 22nd, 2005 at 12:12 am
We hear that people who wish to travel to sikkim have to satisfy some mandatory criteria. Hope that the author throws some light on this issue
June 22nd, 2005 at 12:45 pm
Author, any plans to visit sikkim in the near future? Keep me posted if you are and let me see if i can join you
February 19th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
we want to visit sikkim. we are gujrati famill.2adults one child of9yrs.we want a tour plan from baroda to sikkim round about with aplaces of tourist interest with budget stay. we want to make pure economylongstav toenjoy sikkim.your valuable guidence will make our visit to sikkim enjoyable.
thanking u,
satish