The Historic Old Silk Route Birdwatching & Landscape Photography tour is a specialized 6-day expedition engineered specifically for wildlife birders, nature photographers, and visual storytellers. The temperate oak, fir, and rhododendron forests flanking the Silk Route between Padamchen (7,000 ft) and Lungthung (13,000 ft) represent one of the richest birding hotspots in the Eastern Himalayas, harbouring elusive species including the Himalayan Monal, Blood Pheasant (Sikkim’s state bird), Satyr Tragopan, Fire-tailed Sunbird, and Laughingthrushes. Photographers enjoy unhurried early morning schedules, catching dawn light spilling across the snow peaks of Mount Kanchenjunga while framing the geometry of the famous 32 hairpin loops snaking down the mountainside from Thambi Viewpoint. In the high alpine basin of Gnathang Valley, crystal dark skies offer phenomenal opportunities for Milky Way astrophotography.
Aritar · Padamchen · Zuluk · Thambi Viewpoint · Lungthung · Gnathang Valley · Kupup Lake · Gangtok