Until the Chogyal Thutob Namgyal shifted his capital to this ridge in 1894, it was just a chilly ridge at 5500 ft. A little over a century later this Himalayan capital town is bustling in cosmopolitanism and attracting tourists in hordes. From ancient monasteries to fabulous viewpoints, rare museums to traditional handicraft centers, cable cars to well designed broad streets, flower shows to zoos the city doesn’t fail to amaze. One of the finest summer getaways in the eastern Himalayas it has pleasant summers and chilly winters.