Gangtok district · Theme
Offbeat Sikkim in East Sikkim
Villages few packages reach
In East Sikkim, offbeat sikkim works best in Cho La, Martam, Nathu La and Sang. We have 1 package built around it. Okhrey, Hee Bermiok, Dzongu, Rolep, Kewzing, Uttarey and the new district of Soreng. Quieter roads, cheaper rooms, and places where you are a guest, not a number on a sightseeing list.
Most Sikkim packages repeat the same six stops. A day's drive from any of them are villages with homestays, monasteries and views that see a fraction of the traffic.
Offbeat means simpler rooms, longer drives on smaller roads and fewer ATMs. It also means you meet people. Carry cash and keep a buffer day.
Places
Where to go
Cho La
The royal road to Tibet, open to Indians since 2025
Martam
Paddy terraces and family homestays an hour beyond Rumtek
pass
Nathu La4,310M
Nathu La
The India–China border pass at 4,310 m
village
Sang1,450M
Sang
A quiet Kagyu monastery village beyond Rumtek and Martam
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Trips to start from
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Budget
Top4,000M
Sikkim by shared jeep: 9-night budget circuit
Gangtok · Lachung · Gangtok · Pelling · Yuksom · Ravangla
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Hours that fit the theme
Culture
Escorted visit to the Cho La battlefield
Drive up from your Silk Route homestay with an escort from Kupup to Cho La at about 4,593 m, the site of …
A night in a Silk Route homestay
The Cho La permit requires a night in an approved homestay at Kupup, Gnathang, Zuluk or Padamchen. It is cold and simple, …
Adventure
Cho La and Doklam on one trip
Cho La and Doklam (Doka La) opened together in autumn 2025 on two-day vehicle permits. With a night on the Old Silk …
Photographing the Chola range
The Chola range above the Silk Route offers some of the widest high-altitude views in Sikkim: bare ridges, frozen lakes, snowfields and …
Village life
Walking Martam's paddy terraces
Walk the field bunds and village paths of Martam with a local guide, through rice terraces, bamboo groves and hamlets. Green in …
Food
Cooking and eating in a Martam kitchen
Join a farming family in their kitchen for a meal of home-grown rice, dal, local greens, gundruk or pickles, and perhaps chicken …
Craft
Large cardamom fields and drying kilns
Visit a shady cardamom plot under alder trees with a farming family, see the red pods cut from the base of the …
Wildlife and birds
Morning birding around Martam
The mix of fields, bamboo, cardamom and forest edges around Martam draws a good variety of common Himalayan birds. An early walk …
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Where we would book
Martam village homestays
Family homestays and small village guesthouses in Martam, a farming village of terraced paddy and cardamom about 29–34 km from Gangtok via Rumtek. Home-cooked …
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