Saturday, April 20, 2019

April 18th Fly to Sikkim and Taxi to Pelling

We flew into Pakyang Airport in a Bombardier 400. The last few kms it looked like we were flying into a mountainside. Then the runway appeared cut right into the mountain, It seemed like a very short runway. Then we took a taxi to Pelling. The distance wasn't great – about 120km. But it took 5 hours of tough driving. The first 5 km from the airport were nice paved highway. Then we hit the potholed and missing pavement sections. I felt better because I didn't think it was fair for Sikkim to have better roads than Quebec. None of the roads were wide so passing in any directions was slow. We arrived at our hotel and when we looked out from our balcony the view was fantastic. We're in Sikkim..

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