Rinchenpong

Why this icon Rinchenpong is known for its view of the Kanchenjunga range at sunrise. Source: soreng.nic.in

Zostel

The story

Sunrise on a winter morning at Rinchenpong: the Kanchenjunga range turns gold across the skyline above the forested monastery ridge and its red-and-yellow gompa, and a traveller at the rail of a homestay terrace holds a steaming cup of tea beside a basket of the garden's oranges.

Why this picture

Rinchenpong, a ridge-top village at about 1,700 m in western Sikkim, faces the whole Kanchenjunga range, a long wall of snow peaks that turns red, then gold, at first light; the cold months (October to March) give the clearest skies. The little Rinchenpong Monastery (1730) stands on the ridge among tall prayer flags, Sikkim's monasteries wear red-and-yellow facades, and the homestays' terraced gardens grow oranges, ripe in winter, and large cardamom.

The motion

The sun's rays stir; the prayer flags by the gompa ripple; steam rises from the cup; a few minivets cross the sky; the orange tree sways. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Orchid #AA5EA5

Valley Blue #4F87C7

Blush #F6ADCD

Rinchenpong takes Blush #F6ADCD, one of the three Valleys colours — with its icon in Steel Grey on it.

Another moment in Rinchenpong

A second scene: another true moment at Rinchenpong, drawn in the graphic vocabulary with the animals and city symbols that belong there. Wide for screens, tall for a phone held upright.

The story

A clear autumn morning in a Lepcha farm garden at Rinchenpong: a Lepcha house stands on its stilts with its roof painted red, round dalle chillies ripen on the bushes in front of it, a Siri cow grazes at the garden's edge, a traveller walking up the garden path waves to the house, terraced hills fall away behind and the snows of the Kanchenjunga range stand far off on the skyline.

Why this moment

Rinchenpong, a ridge-top village at about 1,700 m in West Sikkim, keeps traditional Lepcha houses (Zostel's Rinchenpong guide: visit traditional houses and learn the farm life; our West Sikkim map marks them). The Lepcha house is raised on stilts on flat stones and painted bright round its windows. Dalle khursani, Sikkim's round red chilli, grows in every homestay garden and ripens in autumn, when October and November bring clear skies and the Kanchenjunga range in view. The Siri, the hill cattle of Sikkim, graze the farms.

The sky wears Gond scales, from Madhya Pradesh.

The motion

The chilli bushes nod in the breeze; the traveller waves; the cow grazes; the trees on the hills sway; the sun's rays turn; a flock of birds crosses the sky. A 16-second loop.

In the picture

Its files

wide: wide second scene, SVG wide second scene, Animated SVG wide second scene, PNG
tall: tall second scene, SVG tall second scene, Animated SVG tall second scene, PNG

Also in the kit's zip, in its own folder.

Rinchenpong in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Rinchenpong, drawn in the Brand Manual's city language: a monument in the city grey with its openings cut, the things of the place in flat landscape colours. Each comes in colour and in the city grey. Every place's symbols

A Lepcha house on stiltsOf the place
The Lepcha house (li): the Lepchas' home of wood and bamboo, raised 1.2-1.5 m on stilts set on flat stones and built without nails under a thatched roof, painted in bright colours round its windows.
SVG Grey SVG PNG
Dalle khursaniOf the place
Dalle khursani, the round red chilli of Sikkim and the Darjeeling hills (GI 2020): cherry-round, fiercely hot, grown in every homestay garden and served pickled with the family's meals.
SVG Grey SVG PNG

Also drawn for Rinchenpong 3

Detailed icons from the library that name Rinchenpong among their places: one drawing, on the page of every place it belongs to. Those drawn for Rinchenpong alone come first. Every detailed icon

Say hello to Rinchenpong's Zobus

Zobu in Rinchenpong's own dress, on the palette. Hover or tap one and it waves. Each comes still and alive — idle, hello and hop — for stickers, stories and the app.

Every destination's Zobus →

Female
Still Idle Hello Hop Face Wave
Male
Still Idle Hello Hop Face Wave

The kit

Everything Rinchenpong needs: its profile, its cover, wide and tall, its icon, tile, display picture and lockup, its loop and the symbol becoming it, its second scene, its city map, its city symbols and its Zobus — every file ready to download.

46 files in one zip, the cover, its second scene, its symbols, its Zobus and its city map included

Profile

Rinchenpong’s page as a story, 1080 × 1920: its cover, its tile, its name, its line and its verbs — for stories, status and a phone’s lock screen.

SVGOther formats

Cover, wide

1600 × 900, for screens: a page’s top, a slide, a share card. The still is the loop’s first frame. The animated SVG loops in 16 s; where it shouldn’t move, use the still.

SVG Animated SVG PNG

Cover, tall

900 × 1600, composed for a phone held upright: stories, reels, a lock screen. The animated SVG loops in 16 s; where it shouldn’t move, use the still.

SVG Animated SVG PNG

Tile

The icon in one colour on Rinchenpong’s own — for a grid, a story, a sticker.

SVG PNG

Icon

An object: flat landscape colours. Transparent; the mono takes any one colour.

SVG PNG Mono SVG

Loop

Points twinkle behind the peak, or clouds drift past. 7.2 s, seamless.

Animated SVG Lottie JSON

Motion

The symbol becomes Rinchenpong and turns back — a Lottie loop for stories, the app and the web.

Lottie JSON

Display picture

Circle-safe: the colour, the icon and the name — for chats, socials and the app.

SVG PNG

Lockup

The horizontal lockup, with Rinchenpong under the wordmark — for signage, email and merch.

SVG

City symbols

Rinchenpong’s symbols, each in colour and in the city grey, as SVG and PNG — in the zip’s symbols folder.

See them with their files

Zobus

Rinchenpong’s Zobu pair, still and alive (idle, hello, hop), waving still and as a face (a profile picture) — in the zip’s zobus folder.

Female SVG Male SVG

Also made for Rinchenpong 5

The rest of what the library holds for Rinchenpong: the pattern of its region, the card its links share, each opening its own file or gallery.

The map we made for Rinchenpong

Eight things to do around Zostel Rinchenpong, each in its true direction with its distance and time from the door — a map made for your phone.

Walk the tea slopes at TemiTemi Tea Garden · 63.7 km · 155 min drive
Hike up for birds and peaksReesum hill · 3.4 km · 45 min hike
Hike through blooming rhododendronsBarsey · 59 km · 140 min drive
Wander the farm village of KalukKaluk · 5.2 km · 70 min walk
Walk up to the 1730 monasteryThe monastery · 3.8 km · 50 min walk
Catch a two-tiered waterfallChangey Falls · 32.8 km · 80 min drive
Wander the little hill bazaarThe bazaar · 2.8 km · 40 min walk
Explore Sikkim's old royal capitalRabdentse · 31.1 km · 75 min drive

Download the phone map (PNG)Download the phone map (SVG)

1080 × 1350, for a phone or a story. Distances and times from Zostel Rinchenpong, measured on OpenStreetMap routing. Map for representation purposes only.

On the map

Rinchenpong is in Sikkim, India — one of the 84 places where Zostel is live.

Region: Sikkim
Country: India
Where: 27.24° N, 88.27° E
Landscape: Valleys

Make its poster Every place

Rinchenpong · Sikkim · India

Wake early. Watch Kanchenjunga turn gold above the monastery.

The story

Why this picture

The motion

Colour

Another moment in Rinchenpong

The story

Why this moment

The motion

In the picture

Its files

Rinchenpong in symbols

Also drawn for Rinchenpong 3

Say hello to Rinchenpong's Zobus

The kit

Also made for Rinchenpong 5

The map we made for Rinchenpong

On the map