Our last overnight trip within India is over now and we spent it in Darjeeling (if you enjoy being pedantic like us, remember that Darjeeling rhymes with “gargling” when ordering your Darjeeling tea).
Once again we have defied death with a hair raising ride down from this 7000 ft Himalayan village and tea capital. [...]
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Darjeeling
Posted in Darjeeling, Holiday, India, travel on 24 January, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Trading Places
Posted in Darjeeling, India, Varanasi, train, travel, wonder on 20 January, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Our train today rolled toward Darjeeling through the Northeast Indian countryside at a pace somewhere between “slow” and “parked”. As is normally the case on Indian trains, the four doors, two in the front and two in the rear, were left wide open allowing a 180 degree open-air view of life in rural India. My [...]
