Darjeeling Travel Blogs

This morning was supposed to be a sunrise viewing of the mountains from Tiger Hill. But the man who arranges these things at the hotel said to not bother going too early, as we most likely wouldn’t be able to see anything anyway. Sigh. So we left for Tiger Hill at 9am, fully expecting to get a fa…

Darjeeling is the nicest , most relaxed city we have visited so far on our trip, it's amazing. After we arrived at NJP station and recovered from dead guys train journey we jumped onto a share jeep ready for the 2 and a half hour journey to Darj. What a journey, we were lucky enough to sit in the …

Gorkhaland... Gorkhaland" is ringing in my ears. It's been an odd day. I was planning to be all touristy and go to the Himalayan Zoo and the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute - both apparently really good. When I set off, Darjeeling seemed oddly quiet. And oddly 'shut'. The half hour walk to the…

5/21/07 New Video - There is a new video of the crazy traffic in foggy Darjeeling down at the bottom of the screen in the photos section. Well after the excitement of the earthquake last night, we went to bed and woke up refreshed after the first night’s sleep in a real bed in over a week. We h…

I made it to the hill town of Darjeeling after a near-vomit-inducing ride crammed in a Jeep with about 10 others, over a bumpy, winding, narrow road, climbing up to about 2100 meters.  My timing in getting here was both good and bad.  The strikes ended the day I arrived, but I also a…

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We arrived in Darjeeling after taking the Toy Train from Kurseong.  We had a really pleasant and relaxing week in Darjeeling where we stayed at the friendly but basic Hotel Pagoda.Darjeeling was a welcome break from the rest of India as it was a lot cleaner, cooler and quieter.  A lot of …

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i've finally managed to escape the oh-so-fascinating world of hedge fund finance, and am now decadently indulging my long-suppressed wanderlust with 15 months on the road and around the world... *note: apart from the odd review (generally of something not found in your standard guide book), this is really more just a map of my travels than a proper blog, but if you want more information on anywhere i`ve been or what i`ve been up to, send me a message and i`ll see if i can rustle something up.

I was warned that it would be rainning a lot in Darjeeling.  But with the intense heat of the plains, I needed to be somewhere cool and simply bearable for existence.  But no one told me that Darjeeling sits in the clouds. It was so misty and foggy that the place had an eerie feel t…

Off the deep end.

Some people may prefer to take their time and go native but we approached it from the view point that we have 20 days lets see how much of India we can visit ,read on and I think you’ll be impressed with what can be done.

Hi allIf you are bored of knowing everything i'm up to let me know and i won't sent it to you!Sunday 25th OctI'd forgotten how i find it impossible to sleep when i know i have to be up early. So after basically an hours sleep if i'm lucky i had a 'wake up knock' at 5:30 pm, he seemed kinda annoy…

Having arrived from Kathmandu by bus at the Nepali - Indian border I was greeted by a rather icy Indian border official, though I know that Indian border officials have the tact of the Wehrmacht but this one was definitely applying for the Gestapo, who gestured me to put my backpack outside his off…

On the 2nd of August 2008 Kira and I celebrated our marriage with lots of friends,and soon we'll be setting off, overland and water, back to Australia.