Flights can be disorienting. For, there is no gradual transformation of landscape that train rides offer, helping you acclimatise yourself to your eventual destination even before you get there. Instead, you embark at a place you're familiar with. But then in only a few hours, you disembark in a world that can feel completely alien if you haven't been there before. Imagine, for instance, that you take a flight from Mumbai and pass through a sea of clouds to get off at some Scandinavian country. You don't even have to go that far — imagine getting off near Sikkim's capital, Gangtok.

Well, the latter scenario will soon be possible after the Himalayan state gets its maiden airport. It means Mumbaikars can leave their concrete jungle and arrive in the lap of the mountains in a mere three hours. So, if you want to make such plans, here's an insider's view of things to do there, thanks to three of its famous sons.