Lingthem Lyang Homestay

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Bagdogra Airport to Lingthem Lyang Homestay New Jalpaiguri to Lingthem Lyang Homestay Gangtok to Lingthem Lyang Homestay The nearest Airport is Bagdogra Airport and the nearest Railway Station is New Jalpaiguri Railway Station in West Bengal. Gangtok is about 4.5 hours by road and a shared Taxi/an exclusive vehicle are available from there. There is also a helicopter service available between Bagdogra Airport and Gangtok. Once can directly reach Dzongu from the Airport/Railway station via the Singtam road, which takes approximately 5 to 6 hours. We can arrange a pick-up for you from Gangtok or the Airport/Railway station. A hire/Share Taxi to Dzongu is available from Vajra Taxi Stand in Gangtok. You can ride up to Mangan and take another Taxi or come directly in the same vehicle to Lingthem Village in Dzongu. However, for entering into Dzongu(reserved place for Lepcha) special permit is issued by the Government of Sikkim. The permit will be arranged by us before you ar...

Photo Credit: Yangkey One day with our Delhi guest Banalata Sen, Gina Sharma & Kashvi Kahol was extraordinary experience. They were really helpful and productive for Lingthem Lyang Homestay and we are thankful to them. A lot of Knowledge, stories & good conversations were exchanged. Hope you all had a delightful moments with us. We Lingthem Lyang Homestay family miss you all so much and you will come back soon.

Photo Credit: B. P. Choudhary  I,  B. P. Choudhary, residing at Kolkata visited this Upper Dzongu, homestay of Mr. Sangdup, named Lingthem Lyang Homestay, 3 nights from 12th August 2017 night to 15th August 2017 night. Photo Credit: Ashok Senapati I never felt here that I was out of my home. Very well behaved and mannered these whole family. This place is fantastic very close to nature and secluded . I have visited during my stay Monastery, water spring hot, lake. I have seen nature and Himalaya from very close to my heart. Lepcha are very friendly and simple people. B. P. Choudhary a businessman from Kolkata, a hardcore traveller & nature lover

Three days with our Kolkata guest Bhawati Prasad Choudhary & Ashok Senapati were every enjoyable. They were really good and we really thankful to them. Many good conversation were exchanged. We Lingthem Lyang Homestay family miss them so much. We hope you had a great time with us and you will come back soon!

Photo Credit: Diego Beauvilliain I had the opportunity to stay in the Lingthem Lyang Homestay for more than 10 days, and I can say that I enjoyed all my time there. The Homestay in itself is beautifully simple, comfortable and constructed in the traditional Lepcha way.  Photo Credit: Diego Beauvilliain The surroundings of the places are astonishing, and a lot of different activities and small treks are available in the region. All of these activities provided by Sangdup, who is a wonderful host. Sangdup is extremely friendly, welcoming and will do everything possible so his guests have great experience in his homestay. I had the chance to do various small treks, visit the temple of Lingthem, enjoyed the hot spring, meet a lot of people from the town.....  Photo Credit: Diego Beauvilliain Photo Credit: Diego Beauvilliain Photo Credit: Diego Beauvilliain So, if you ever have the occasion to go to the Lingthem Lyang Homestay, don't hesitate for a second...

Photo Credit: Pritam Pramanik Sikkim is always very close to my heart. I try to visit Sikkim once in each year. This year along with Lachung, Lachen, Yumthang and Gurudongmar we( a team of four families) got an opportunity to explore a placid, divine village of North Sikkim namely Dzongu. We did not know much about the place at the time of planning the trip. Most of the tourists prefer to stay in Gangtok after hectic North Sikkim tour. And this came as bliss to us a as we always prefer to stay in some calm, serene place rather to stay in a tumultuous, crowded city. And that’s why on the way back from Lachung we planned to stay at Lingthem Lyang homestay in Dzongu for two nights. The time we spent at our homestay along with the sweet experiences of exploring the small Lepcha village was the main reason that made this tour a memorable one. I have no words to explain the experience of our journey to reach the homestay on the top of the hill from the foothills in a rainy night. It was...

Final manual transplanting of rice  Rice is a very important food crop that is the staple diet of at least half of the world's population so in this half of the world’s population we the Lepcha are included. Final manual transplanting is done on the flat land with clayey soil because this is most ideal for wet rice cultivation as this can help retain water. In hilly places steps are cut into the hill slopes to create terraces (flat land) for growing rice. The fields are then flooded with water channeled from small streams or obtained from direct rainfall. Ploughing and leveling of terraces The terraces (flat land) fields are first ploughed with the help of energetic and helpful oxen and the finally leveled by the villager. After leveling the fields, final manual transplanting is done and it ensures a uniform plant stand and gives the rice crop a head start over emerging weeds. Further, seedlings are established even if the field is not leveled adequately and has varia...

Photo Credit: Johanna  Some of the most wonderful incidents of travelling we had in the homestay. You don't expect anything and you get one wonderful experience after another. Warm honest people deep curious conversations a stunning view of incredible snow covered mountains. Photo Credit: Johanna Huge slopes of calming green trees. Photo Credit: Johanna remote.waterfall Photo Credit: Johanna an lively interesting Lepcha Village intense new tastes of local foods herb and if you dare the notorious millet beer The notorious millet beer you curiousity will be rewarded and responsed!! We had an unforgettable and. recommend anyone to make this experience! Photo credit: Johanna Johanna Abel studying cognitive linguistics and working as teacher for German Language and Herinrich Abel working at administration studied law

Traditional Pulling of Rice Seedling  Transplanting is the most common and traditional method of crop establishment for rice in Lepcha cultures. Rice seedlings grown in a nursery are pulled and transplanted into leveled fields. This is done in order to get higher yields. Manual Transplanting is done most by people of the village itself with enthusiastic, passionate and vehement. They help each other for pulling and transplanting of rice. The village people enjoy working in the paddy fields by drinking testy organic millet wine. This method has been carried out hundred years to keep the Lepcha tradition alive. So come and see the Lepcha traditional rice farming and enjoy with the millet wine at Lingthem Lyang Homestay.

My Mom(Azee) is very curious to teach Finger Millet farming to my better half(Dechen) & Niece(Amimsha)  We the Lepcha called these crops as Kamdak(scientific name is Pennisetum glaucum) and Naho(scientific name is Sorghum bicolor). These crops are cultivated a lot by our grand parents & parents a very long long ago for different use for human and animals but now a day these crops are rarely cultivated and one can hardly see now a day so this is kind of waking up alarm and revitalizing the traditional crops. Bringing back a vanishing crops of vanishing tribes. Finger Millet farming Benefit of finger millet Finger millet has lot of health benefits like it help in weight loss, excellent source of calcium, regulating blood sugar levels, reduce cholesterol, good source of protein & amino acids, treating anemia, digestion, increase lactation and many more.

Photo credit:Tanmay Sen I and 3 of my friends with our wives visited beautiful North Sikkim in first week of may, 2017. We visited Gurudombar lake, Zero point, yumthang vally then on the way back we planned our trip to a serene, unexplored Lepcha village of North Sikkim, Dzongu. We stayed in Lingthem Lyang Homestay run by Sangdup Lepcha. As this place is a Lepcha village, we needed prior permission to go there. Sangdup arranged everything for us. This place has so many things to offer: Beautiful view of Kanchenjunga, the lush green paddy fields, Monastery(Men/women), beautiful lakes, water falls, Hotspring, hanging bridge, green hills, and above all calmness of nature. Here you can feel the beauty of nature. Photo credit: Tanmay Sen Photo Credit: Tanmay Sen The breathtaking view of Kanchenjunga mesmerized us. Ramden, the Magic man of the homestay, helped us in adventures trips around the mountains. We were mesmerized by the calmness of the monastery at the top of the mo...

An image of the front of the monastery by our guest Tanmay Sen who visited us from Midnapore  The Buddhist monastery in the village Lingthem is over hundred year old and a pleasant thirty minutes walk across the greenery of the mountain from the Lingthem Lyang Home stay. Our guests never fail to undertake this walk to the monastery, and come back with a lifetime experience of peace, serenity and fulfillment. A slow and steady walk unfolds gems of scene, sound, and sweet memories. One of the most immediate benefit is that it fills your lungs with purest of oxygen, massages your muscles, and makes you much stronger and sturdier. our guests dev and prabuddh, on the monastery trail, whistling a song in chorus with chirping birds, gushing streams, and rustling trees Our guest from Germany Johanna and her father loved to take note of several places on the way to the monastery. For them, the passage was as enriching as the destination. Our German guest Johhana clicking p...