After a drive of about 25km or 1.5 hours downhill on winding roads we had reached the Raman river and as such the border between the state of West Bengal and Sikkim around midday. We crossed the bridge and during a short break our documents were checked and we got stamped into Sikkim.

A (lengthy) lunch in nearby Sisney (and a nearly lost cell phone) later, another ~45km were ahead of us, first following the river and then back to winding roads, heading up into the mountains towards Pelling, where we arrived around sunset.