Near MAYFAIR Spa Resort & Casino
Rumtek Monastery
12.4 km
The largest monastery in Sikkim and the seat of the Karma Kagyu school, set on a ridge facing Gangtok across the valley. Built in its present form in the 1960s, it holds a golden stupa, a wall of prayer wheels and a main shrine hall painted in the Tibetan manner, and the walk up to it looks back over the whole of the town.
Also within reach
Tsomgo Lake
A glacial lake held in a bowl of high ridges on the road to the Nathu La pass, frozen through the coldest months and mirror-still in spring.
Ganesh Tok
A small hilltop shrine above Gangtok with a viewing balcony that opens onto the town below and the Kanchenjunga range beyond it.
Do Drul Chorten
One of the most important stupas in Sikkim, ringed by prayer wheels that visitors turn as they walk its circuit.
Banjhakri Falls
A waterfall dropping through a landscaped park of pools, bridges and carved figures drawn from Sikkimese folklore.