Picturesque Pelling. A close encounter with Mt. Kanchendzonga and a one sided love story.

It was a foggy, bone biting cold morning at picturesque Pelling and I was at the roof top of the Hotel Takura with the lense of the Nicon DSLR ready to take the first glimpse of my obsession engulfed with thick cover of fog and clouds. My long awaited dream to see her from a  point blank range was just depending on the diverging of the thick grey and white curtain of clouds wrapping her face. It was just like a beautiful woman covering her face with a pale grey dupatta unwilling to stare at her infatuated lover and thus pretending to be in a slumber. 


I was wearing two woollen sweaters and a jacket and even then I was unable to stop the piercing cold accupancturing as if with the pointed needles in my skin and bone. Soon I gave up the hope of seeing a sunrise in the lap of Kanchendzonga range as it was already late and all of us were deprived because of bad weather conditions. But I waited further to get a view of the entire range once the weather condition improves. And this time the nature God didn't allow me to be deprived. After waiting for almost half an hour, there was a ray of hope as the cloud cover started getting thinner with the darkness of early morning gradually started to move away with the arrival of the early rays of the stare of a lazy sun just woke up from his sleep behind the sea of clouds. And finally that moment came when the screen of clouds moved away unveiling the face of my long awaited love and for a moment, I was dumbstruck with the spectacular beauty of raw nature. As if she was standing tall in her beautiful milky white churidaar with her head covered with a white dupatta and throwing an egoistic angry look at me with her eyes shining with the ray of bright morning sunlight. And I went on clicking the shutter of my camera like a lunatic lover in delusion with a woman who will never ever belong to him even at his dream of a seventh heaven. 

And gradually the entire range of the majestically beautiful Mt. Kanchendzongha was clearly visible at the backdrop of a pristine ice blue sky. But the actual surprise was yet to come. 


Next day morning the weather condition was clear right from the beginning and the sun was half awakened and was yet to rouse up completely from his bed. All on a sudden the entire pale range of mountains went behind the thick cover of clouds with noises of frustrated sighs floating in from all the neighbouring rooftops, balconies and windows of the hotels. Only the nature knew that it was just an interval of the story and the astounding climax was yet to come. And the show began within next ten minutes when slowly and steadily the cloud cover started moving away and the lazy, yawning sun of an early winter morning peeped from the white cloud cover of an ice blue sky throwing it's first ray of pride directly at the peak of the mountain range and suddenly a huge roar of applauses and clapping sounds broke the silence of the dawn and inundated this small and beautiful hill station of West Sikkim. It was as if the lady covering her head with a white dupatta suddenly changed her dupatta and wrapped her head with an orangish yellow dupatta shining with the ray of sunlight. Just imagine the combination of a orange or yellowish dupatta on a milky white churidar adorning a tall and fair lady in a bright sunshine. This astonishingly beautiful look of my obsession consolidated the fact that this is not the end of this one sided love story which will continue forever and I will keep running from one hill station to the other to get the closest glimpse of her majestic beauty for the rest of my life like an insane not willing to realize the limitations of a human being in the lap of pulsating alluring nature.

So we were lucky enough to see the two different looks of the Kanchendzonga Mountain range from the beautiful town of Pelling in West Sikkim located at an altitude of 7200 feet above the sea level. If you want to spend a couple of days in the lap of Himalayan mountain away from the bustling crowd of a city with a pollution free environment, pristine blue sky, lush green valleys and burbling streams and waterfalls, then this small town of West Sikkim is an ideal location for you. This is an ideal hill station with absolute loneliness, serene beauty of the West Sikkim mountain ranges and spectacular lush green neighbouring valleys like Utre, Versay, Richenpong and Kaluk famous for wide varieties of flowers and bìrds. If you enjoy trekking in hill stations with not much risks involved, then you must visit Pelling and the nearby valleys and enjoy the raw beauty of the Sikkimeese villages while trekking in the lap of nature.

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