Tuesday, 11 February 2014

And a cousin...............Sikkim






*     Some prefer to call it a brother. But I would prefer to call it a sister, a beautiful cousin of beautiful Seven Sisters. If you are a man and in love with these eight beautiful girls, your spouse would have no cause for complain. And as a woman if you are in love, nobody can accuse you of being a gay.

*      In Hindu texts, Sikkim is known as Indrakil, the garden of  Lord Indra. It is the least populous state in India and the second-smallest after  Goa. Kangchenjunga, the world's third-highest peak, is located on Sikkim's border with Nepal.


*   The Buddhist Guru Padmasambhava visited Sikkim in the 8th century AD and introduced Buddhism. Sikkim's Namgyal dynasty was established in 1642. Over the next 150 years, the kingdom witnessed frequent raids and territorial losses to Nepalese invaders. In the 19th century, Sikkim allied itself with British India and eventually becoming a British protectorate. Referendum in 1975, abolished the Sikkimese monarchy and the territory merged with India.





*      A journey to the famed beautiful Seven Sisters is incomplete without a visit to Sikkim.

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