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Tsomgo Lake, also known as Tsongmo Lake or Changgu Lake, is a glacial lake in Changu in the Gangtok district of the Indian state of Sikkim, some 40 kilometres (25 mi) from the capital Gangtok. Located at an elevation of 3,753 m (12,313 ft), the lake remains frozen during the winter season.
The 1 km (0.6 mi) long cable car with three stops connects lower Gangtok suburbs with Sikkim Legislative assembly in central Gangtok and the upper suburbs. [ 42 ] Gangtok is connected to the rest of India by an all-weather metalled highway, National Highway 10 (NH10), [ 43 ] earlier known as National Highway 31A , which links Gangtok to ...
Lake Tsongmo - Lake Tsongmo or Changu Lake is a glacial lake in the East Sikkim, India, some 40 kilometres (25 mi) from Gangtok at elevation of 3,780 m (12,400 ft). Loktak Lake - Loktak Lake is the largest freshwater lake in the entire Northeast India is famous for its phumdis (heterogeneous decomposing mass of vegetation, soil, and organic ...
Gangtok District [2] is an administrative district of the Indian state of Sikkim. It was renamed in 2021 as a result of administrative reorganisation of the state, which also saw three subdivisions of the East Sikkim district spawned off as a separate Pakyong district .
Gangtok Helipad, East Sikkim district, Sikkim; Nearest railhead: Narrow gauge: Ghum, West Bengal; Standard Gauge: New Jalpaiguri, West Bengal; Nearest highway: NH 31A (Sivok-Gangtok) passes through Darjeeling (which is 1.5 hours by car from Manebhanjan) Nearest town: Manebhanjan - the access point for Rimbick and Tumling, the gateways to the park
Sikkim Manipal University Campus, Gangtok In 2011, Sikkim's adult literacy rate was 82.2 per cent: 87.29 per cent for males and 76.43 per cent for females. [ 158 ] There are a total of 1,157 schools in the state, including 765 schools run by the state government, seven central government schools and 385 private schools. [ 159 ]
At the time of the first British arrival, Darjeeling was known among its Lepcha inhabitants as Dorje-ling, or the "Place of the Thunderbolt." [g] According to the Oxford Concise Dictionary of World Place Names, Darjeeling is derived from the Tibetan Dorje ling or Dorje-glin, meaning "Land of Dorje," i.e. of the vajra, the weapon of the Hindu god Indra.
Gurudongmar Lake is one of the highest lakes in the world and in India, at an elevation of 5,430 m (17,800 ft) according to the Government of Sikkim. [1] [2] [a] It is located in the Great Himalayas in the Mangan District in Indian state of Sikkim, [1] and considered sacred by Buddhists and Sikhs.