Proud to be a Sikkimese: Sikkim Travel, Culture & Local Heritage

 

SINGTAM, JANUARY 8:  Photographic Society of Sikkim, Singtam concluded its two-day workshop on the theme ‘Basics of the Photography” at Temi Tea Garden on January 7. Thirteen participants were present on the occasion that was from in and around Singtam Town. Vivek Prasad, Nikon School India, Kolkata was the Instructor of the two-day program. The recently formed Photographic Society of Sikkim, Singtam in its press release had thanked the mentor and the participants for the success of the workshop. The two-day session included interaction and discussion between the participants and the Instructor.  The session had a theory class on the inaugural day that was held at Kid Zee School, Dhamala Colony, Singtam while on the next day field class was organized in the natural scenic beauty of Temi Tea Garden, reads the press release.

from News4u Gangtok : Having declared the year 2010 as the Year of Tourism, the Sikkim government has drawn up a plan incorporating as many as 13 local festivals in the list of popular events to be staged next year to woo tourists from across the country and abroad. Officials of the tourism department said that the celebration of the Year of Tourism will commence with the Sikkim Discover Festival to be held in March/April next year and conclude with the State Flower Show to be held at the state capital in March, 2011. In April 2010, a number of cultural events will be held at Rabong, Aritar and Temi-Tarku to delight the visitors. Apart from this, an international Rhododendron festival will be held at Shingba Lachung in North Sikkim and Varsey in West Sikkim during the first three weeks of May 2010.

GANGTOK, June 13: Patim is a small, shy village one and half hours away from Gangtok, which Lok Nath Sharma calls an organic tea haven. This is one village, which still bears testimony to the Sang-Martam Tea Growers Association (SMTGA) formed in 1998. People like Mr. Sharma have grown up on these fields of gold. He looks after his lush tea gardens, crops of wheat, maize and other vegetables like they are his family. Recently, in a joint initiative led by Mr Sharma, a mini tea processing unit was launched after acquiring a personal loan of Rs 10 lakh. The initiative, which can be termed as a bold step towards tea plantation in the region was able to convince a 30 percent subsidy from the Khadi Board. Until this time, there was no means of tea processing save very few forays into the Temi Tea factory, which is located about 40 km away. Now there are chances for us to keep aside the CTC bags. Yes, this is the same tea, which won accolades for its rich organic mountai...