Sikkim is almost unknown as a travel destination and only a few know anything about the small mountain state measuring around 7,300 square kilometers in the east of the Himalayas, which borders the Indian West Bengal, Nepal, Tibet and the Kingdom of Bhutan. Even if the area is not particularly large, the nature and culture of Sikkim still allow holidays with many different impressions – not least because the mountain…
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Nepal and the capital, Kathmandu, evoke strong images of small villages on the slopes of the Himalayas in the shadow of the world’s highest snow peaks, temples dedicated to the city’s countless Hindu deities, or Tibetan Buddhist prayer mills revolving along hiking trails. Yearbook 2003 Nepal. A hope of an end to the seven-year civil war was raised in January, when the government and the Maoist guerrillas entered into a…
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