Kanchenjunga

Gangtok/Sikim, 22-02-1994. Gantok, a small little Himalaya town and also the capital of Sikim. The people here speak a very fine English almost like they all have been to college in England. The views this morning at 06.00 h. from Darjeeling to Gantok were suburb with Kanchenjunga completely visible. The 70 km. trip took about 5 hours through forested and hilly country, the only obtrusion a military chechpoint with the guards eyeing my Sikim permit suspiciously like i was some sort of Europen freedom fighter to help the Sikim independance struggle.