On the road to town

Here is video from the school bus we take from Pangthang to Gangtok. The trip takes about 30 minutes but travel is painstakingly slow given the bumpy, twisty and wet road conditions. It is monsoon season so it is often raining and/or very foggy making for even trickier conditions.

This first video shows early minutes of our ride in our village.

The second video shows the final minutes of our ride in Gangtok, a city of over 100,000 people. Before reaching the city the road is seemingly wide enough for only one vehicle at a time, but somehow two are always accommodated usually with only inches to spare between vehicles or the roads edge on to careening cliffs.