Exploring Rishyap

This was an excellent experience while reaching a virgin destination in North Bengal, Rishyap on 6th April, 2007. It was just like a heaven, a place from where you will find how small you are - in respect to nature. It seems a like a roof - from where i was able to see all the natural beauties surround me.

We were staying at a Hotel named Kanchan View - we booked it through The Wheels. The room was more than a hotel.. wooden floor & veranda with multicolored flowers and orchids. From veranda - we found a two large hills - one is - where Rishyap Habitants live and another was the hill -- where Pedong was situated ...the continuation of the hill was upto Gangtok - we heard. In the night - there was a heavy shower - uff -- chilled cold it was ... but we were enjoying the beauty in the Candle night upto 2.00 in night. Remember -- there is huge scarcity of current in Rishyap. Just one year back, they got electricity - but it is not available all the time. Morning - we roamed here and there and the whole day we passed in the ups and down in hills and by eating momos. The next day - we decided that we would go to Lava by trekking. We took one Porter - he is just 15 yrs old child. It was another exciting trip we covered -- the trek was for 2 hours to cover 6 kms. Finally we reached in Lava's Forest Rest House.

The beauty i will never forget in my life -- two nights in Rishyap is ever forgettable -- the sweetness will never die from my memory.

The best time to visit is: Feb - April End and Oct - Dec. The place is full of flowers and many himalayan birds.

Make a plan to go atleast once in Rishyap and send your feedback;

Also, dont forget to visit the link below- all the photos are taken by Nikon CoolPix S4 Camera

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/amitkrghosh/RishyapLavaLolegaon