{"id":2746,"date":"2009-11-25T11:54:59","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T06:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/?p=2746"},"modified":"2011-01-11T20:55:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T15:25:07","slug":"join-me-on-a-trek-to-dzongri-goechala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/join-me-on-a-trek-to-dzongri-goechala.html","title":{"rendered":"Join me on a trek to Dzongri \u2013 Goechala.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After some quick discussions with a friend who wanted to go trekking somewhere in the Himalayas this December, we made a decision to head to Sikkim and trek to Goecha-la, a high pass in Kanchenjunga National Park.<\/p>\n<p>I have trekked to Goechala via Dzongri earlier in summer(See <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/sikkim-adventure-trekking-to-gochela.html\">trip report<\/a>), but I was keen to go back there again to do some serious photography of landscapes deep in the Himalayas. We are starting the trek on 13th and we can take a few more people along. Here is an open invitation to join me on the trek.<\/p>\n<p>It will be an 8-day trek and this being December, the weather is likely to be cold. But I am hoping that the winter mornings and evenings can be so spectacular that the trouble will be worth it. If you are interested in joining, see my earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/sikkim-adventure-trekking-to-gochela.html\">trip report<\/a> to know more details. The trek starts from Yuksom Village, where we need to arrive a day earlier to get the permits made. You can contact me here or email me at arunchs -a-t- yahoo -d-o-t- com for more details.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some images from the trek.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2748\" title=\"Trek to Goecha La\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/goecha_la_1.jpg\" alt=\"Trek to Goecha La\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2749\" title=\"goecha la trek - samiti lake\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/goecha_la_2.jpg\" alt=\"goecha la trek - samiti lake\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/goecha_la_2.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/goecha_la_2-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2750\" title=\"Kancnehjunga as seen during Goecha La Trek\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/goecha_la_3.jpg\" alt=\"Kancnehjunga as seen during Goecha La Trek\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/goecha_la_3.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/goecha_la_3-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After some quick discussions with a friend who wanted to go trekking somewhere in the Himalayas this December, we made a decision to head to Sikkim and trek to Goecha-la, a high pass in Kanchenjunga National Park. I have trekked to Goechala via Dzongri earlier in summer(See trip report), but I was keen to go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,35,36,173,55,1],"tags":[175,176,174],"class_list":["post-2746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-himalayas","category-mountains","category-nature","category-sikkim-states","category-trek","category-uncategorized","tag-gochala","tag-gochela-goche-la","tag-goecha-la"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xrJt-Ii","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2746"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2754,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions\/2754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}