"Should we really go?""Is it safe?""Just yesterday, people got stuck in Lachung and had to be rescued!""And vehicles have not even been allowed to go towards Yumthang.""Maybe we should just cancel our Lachung-Yumthang plan and stay in Gangtok."On the 10 January, NDTV reported that over 150 tourists were stuck in the Lachung Valley and were rescued by the army. Was it sheer stupidity to stick with our original plan and visit Lachung anyway? We were to go there on the 12th, just two days later.We asked my friend from Gangtok, "Do you think we should go to north Sikkim?""You MUST go to north Sikkim!" she replied.Then, our flight was rerouted to Bagdogra. We were supposed to fly to Pakyong, closer to Gangtok, but Spice Jet said that the flight was being redirected owing to bad weather conditions.We, from the warm Deccan, dithered. Maybe going to the north was a bad idea.But … [Read more...]