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Sikkim General
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Straddling the Sikkim–Nepal border is Khangchendzonga (Kanchenjunga;
8598m), the world’s third-highest mountain.
Khangchendzonga’s guardian spirit is worshipped in a series
of spectacular autumn festivals and its magnificent multiple
white peaks can be spied from many points around the state.
An independent kingdom until 1975, Sikkim has long been
considered one of the last Himalayan Shangri Las. But hurry.
In the last few years a tourist boom has seen ever
multiplying numbers of visitors, mostly middle-class
Bengalis escaping the Kolkata heat. Every year more concrete
hotels protrude from once-idyllic villagescapes and most
towns are already architecturally lacklustre huddles of
multistorey box-homes.
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