Located at a 5 hours drive from Gangtok, Uttarey in West Sikkim is a base camp for adventure tourism. It is surrounded by hilltops, waterfalls, frothing rivers, evergreen forest, medicinal herbs and mountain hamlets.     Apart from hotels and resorts it has three beautiful home stay villages for nature lovers. The Bandukey Limboo Tribal Heritage Village, the sherpa Gaon Tribal Heritage Village;     and Ferek Lepcha Tribal Heritage Village are sites that have been developed for the visitors based on the local cultural themes.
The famous Chewabhanjyang pass on the Indo-Nepal border is located 10 kms uphill which can be reached by trekking. From a vantage point of the pass the panoramic view of Mt. Everest. Mt. Dhaulagiri, Mt. Makalu, Mt. Lotse, Mt. Nuptse in     the west and Mt. Khang chen dzonga, Mt. Pandim, Mt. Kabru, Mt. Narsing, Mt. Rathong, Mt. Siniolchu, Mt.     Koktang in the east is visible.
The Kagyu Gompa in Uttarey is a highly revered place of worship for the locals and a good place for sight seeing. The monastery is set amidst dense forests on  a hilltop. The other important tourist spots around Uttarey include the Mainbus Waterfall and the Limboo traditional villages of Sopakha, the Singshore Bridge, one of the highest suspension bridge over a gorge in Asia. One cal also hike till Chitrey and get to see the trout cultivation undertaken at this centre.  Several lodges and resorts exist that cater to the nature and adventure tourists that come to this site.