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Originally Posted by SS-Traveller Sad to hear about your clutch burnout and experience with the Gangtok Traffic cops, but it's great to hear you managed to secure the permit so easily. I hope your permit is not date-restricted, and you manage repair the car well in time for you to use the permit within the dates specified. |
Hi SS,
Any road / route permit in Sikim is time / date bound, and one has to complete the journey withing the given time, if one sees that he might overshoot the date, he / she should immediately go to the nearest police thana and get the permits updated with the new date.
We just managed our itinerary within the given permit time. Quote:
Originally Posted by amrisharm Yes AC 427, i too have heard that after mid day the winds get very very ferocious up there and the weather turns sour quite rapidly at Gurdongmar lake. My cousin sister was telling me after her return from there that their guide told them the winds are so strong that grown people have a hard time standing straight, dont know how much truth there is to that. She is just 14 so i guess the guide might have been exaggerating a little to pull her leg ![Smile](https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/images/smilies/smile.png) .Even tour operators start their tours early and by 11:30am-12pm they make their return trip back.
Do check with the locals there and see what they say. And hope your clutch plate arrives on time. |
We started @ 5.00 a.m sharp, but none of what you said actually happened, I think the weather gods were very kind on us, the weather @ gurudongmar was 'pleasant', it wasn't too cold, nor was it extremely windy...what has been said by you or your cousin is true, but winds like those are experienced post 15 october. Quote:
Originally Posted by sree70 hi, ac 427
Wish you tonnes of Good Luck & cheer up Guys ![Smile](https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/images/smilies/smile.png) already the good things have begin. U have ur Permit & the spares are coming @ 10-00am.
To Gurdongmar Lake if not today u guys will make it definitely tomorrow.
As per my Knowledge the Military will ask the Tourists @ Gurdongmar Lake to move out by 12-00 noon to 1-00pm after that the weather is going to be freak. Please donot Keep High Hopes. In sikkim our appointments are with Mother Nature & she has to Bless us.
regards
sree |
98 % of tours in sikkim are run by tour operators, and hence you are at the mercy of the tour operator, if he says that you have to vacate the place by a particular time then you have to. THe military does not have any such rule, but they have a entry and exit time which has to be adhered to, viz the visiting hours for tourists @ gurudongmar is between 7 a.m to 2 .p.m, one has to exit the check post by that time.
cheers,
ac |