We spent 3 nights in Sikkim in Pelling, which was very cold but very beautiful. We visited two Buddhist Monasteries and ancient ruins which involved really steep walks through the hills, but provided excellent views. Sikkim was a very scenic and peaceful place with a relaxed pace of life, we thought it had a similar vibe to Nepal and enjoyed our time there.
Arriving bog eyed, after travelling for 24 hours, in Kolkata we decided to power through and do some sightseeing. We walked around the city and spent the afternoon at the Victoria memorial. Before flying to Goa the next day.
We arrived to the sun beating down on us; a welcome relief from the cold of Sikkim and the humidity of Kolkata. We spent the day in Vasco De Gama near the airport awaiting the arrival of Amy VvG from a freezing and snowy England in the middle of the night. Next day we travelled up to Arambol and checked in to Ivons, spent the day exploring the beach shacks, main street shops, and lazing on the beach. Arambol’s main road is called Glastonbury Street - after lots of hippies came on holiday and stayed in the 70’s. Nowadays there are numerous stalls selling clothes, bags, jewellery, musical instruments etc and being in the Glastonbury mood we bought some fire poi!
Whilst in Arambol we also visited Wednesday’s Anjuna flea market, which was really good fun but hunting and haggling in the searing afternoon heat was a exhausting - so a much deserved Old Monk and Coke followed on the beach that night!
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