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Colorful houses are scattered on terraced slopes with trees in Lachung, Sikkim, India, with misty, snow-dusted Himalayan mountains rising in the background. Lachung, India
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Colorful houses are scattered on terraced slopes with trees in Lachung, Sikkim, India, with misty, snow-dusted Himalayan mountains rising in the background.
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Lachung, village, northeastern Sikkim state, northeastern India. It is located on the Lachung River, a tributary of the Tista River, in a deep valley at the base of the Himalayas near the border with Tibet (China). Lachung is a small trading center (corn [maize] and pulses). It has a dispensary, a rest house, and a monastery and is the site of a government agricultural station. It is linked to Gangtok, Sikkim’s capital, 27 miles (43...

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