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| Wild orchids, growing on a tree trunk. |
So this weekend, I ventured out of the big city in Sikkim to live in a village in South Sikkim. It was absolutely beautiful, but hard to capture on my tiny little camera because it is just so expansive. In San Diego, the science center has an IMAX Dome theater, which is pretty cool because you can watch huge penguins or other natural things literally envelope your entire field of vision, even right past your toes. The view this weekend was a lot like that.
All of Sikkim seems to take over the mountainsides - it seems like there is barely a flat surface in the whole state besides the roads and houses that have been painstaking carved out. As a result, the view is not just phenomenal looking out and up at the scenery, but down as well. You look down onto a view. On Saturday morning, I spent a little bit of time watching clouds rise from below my porch, across my line of vision, and then above me, only to pour down that night to do it all over again.
Anyways, in an effort to sort my stories, here are some pictures of the nature from the weekend.
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| More clusters of orchids, on a tree branch overhead. Can you spot them? |
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| One cow eating away on the next level down of the terrace farms that carpet Sikkim. |
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| The view back towards Payung from Kau. |
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| Looking out from Lingi. |
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| Jeep-in-waiting near Lingi. |
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