TSOZUM

Dear Tamding,
Being back from our tour to Sikkim and Bhutan, I would like to express our thanks to you for your excellent job you did to guide us through Sikkim. You did more to us than we expected, starting already with the train tickets delivered by special courier to our hotel in Calcutta. With this sprit, that nothing can go wrong, the whole tour organised by you and the selection of hotels was very good. You explained to us the utmost about your country, its culture and habits but led us also to local restaurants to experience how Indians eat. It was always safe and good. You tried to make us Buddhism understand, a difficult task. We very much appreciated your social aspects toward children, poor people and your link to the orphan you visit. This spirit made you a very special and highly respected person. We would like to thank you again very much that you did all efforts to make this tour an unforgettable one. We hope that many more tourists may have the pleasure to visit Sikkim under your guidance. We wish you, your family and your business all the best for the future.

Dear Tamding,
Renate and I, we would like to thank you for receiving your message, telling us that you are fine and we hope, your whole family as well. Unfortunately I have been very busy after being back to Germany and back to work, so that it took me longer than expected to send you a reply for once again expressing our thanks to you for all you did during our common stay. Like Dieter and Ilse, we really enjoyed the nice time we had together and we appreciate that you have been showing us around, explaining us the unique landscape of that part of West Bengal and Sikkim we have been traveling through, with deeply cut valleys and high mountain ridges, beautifully sited villages, farm houses, rice pads or tea gardens, etc. It was a pleasure to follow your interesting explanations, we could almost say lectures about the botanical, geographical, ethnological particularities of your country. We enjoyed in particular also the many interesting discussions we had during our common traveling which showed us your deep understanding and tolerance and we are impressed about your generous gift to the orphenage at Gangtok which we thought originally as an expression of our personal gratitude and thanks to you and your family. We remind in particular the nice evening at Kalimpong with our common dinner in the garden of the hotel, including Dorji, who has so carefully and safely driven us the far distances, down the slopes and up the mountains through your beautiful country. Due to your help, our stay in Sikkim will be unforgettable for us. We are glad to have been meeting you, Tamding. You proved to be a real expert and an excellent guide and we learned from you a lot of about your country, about the Sikkim people, the historical development about the different beliefs, the religious festivities, the daily way of life and customs, and about the modern, present days economical achievements. It was also especially impressive for us to see the younger generation of smart kids in their school uniforms on their way to school in the morning or back home in the afternoon. Dear Tamding, many thanks again, and don’t forget that you will be welcome at Lörrach in the so-called three countries (German-French-Swiss) tripel point corner any time, if you have the possibility to visit our area in Europe.