Nathula PassSituated on Indo-Chinese border, Nathula Pass in recent years has become a great tourist attraction. Trekking to Nathula Pass through the narrow roads amidst the lush green valleys is in itself a breathtaking experience. And the experience is further enhanced when you indulge in unique yak safari on the banks of sedate and picturesque Tsomgo LakeRoad To A Higher World Nestling at an altitude of 14,140 feet above sea level, Nathula is one of the highest motorable roads in the world. Around 56 Km east of Gangtok, this mountain pass in Himalayas is located on Indo – China border and connects Indian state Sikkim to Tibet Autonomous Region in China. Nathula was once an offshoot of ancient silk route connecting Lhasa in Tibet to plains of Bengal. But the pass was closed after the war between India and China in 1962 and was reopened only in 2006 July. Since then, it sees a huge number of tourist visiting the pass everyday. The best part of traveling to Nathula pass is the
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Nathula Pass : Situated on Indo-Chinese border, Nathula Pass in recent years has become a great tourist attraction. Trekking to Nathula Pass through the narrow roads amidst the lush green valleys is in itself a breathtaking experience. And the experience is further enhanced when you indulge in unique yak safari on the banks of sedate and picturesque Tsomgo Lake
Baba Harbhajan Singh: story of a dead sepoy
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He has defeated dead. Believe it or not but it is true, one of its kind of story in the world- a man from an Indian army in a Nathula border is still doing his duty even after his death some three decades back. 60 km from Gangtok towards the panoramic view of the Nathula landscape a road leads towards the valley of Kupup. Here is the shrine of Baba Harbhajan popularly known as Baba Mandir. Baba Harbhajan has been guarding the international boundary of the two Asian giants the China and India over the last three decades. But believe me he does it alone. Even the army men on the other side of the international wall confirms that they had seen a man riding a horse all alone patrolling the border. Born in Brondal village of Kapurthala, Punjab Harbhajan Singh joined the 23rd Punjab Battalion on February 1966 as sepoy. The year of 1968 when the states of Sikkim and North Bengal was under the rage of great natural catastrophic where landslides, floods and heavy rain had taken thousan