Every river and every lake in this country has a legend to talk about and often it will be mired in myth. Tsomgo Lake in east Sikkim is no different. One night the old lady from village where the lake situated today had premonition. She had a dream. In that dream a beautiful lady came to tell her that her village will get submerged in water. No one believed her and she went away alone sad with her yak. The next day the village got submerged in water and everyone in the village lost their life. There after this lake of dead people became a place of worship for local people.
The lake changes its colour from morning to evening and season to season with the change of sun light. Earlier it seems Buddhists used to predict future looking at the colour of the lake. At thirteen and half feet above sea level this lake and the surrounding mountains becomes a memorable story. Within an hour or so we spent time there in chilling cold and ice, we saw it changing colour from black to green and dark blue.
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