Only during highway bandhs

There are some scenes possible only when the National Highway 31A is closed for regular traffic. A taxi stand empty of passengers or any activity is one such. This is the mainline taxi and bus station at Deorali in Gangtok. 

The highway monkeys, pampered by highway commuters to the extent that they appear to have forgotten how to forage food in the forests or fields, rummage through the rubbish at Rangpo. With traffic denied on the highway, there are no meals for these simians either.