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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 face full of fog once again. After seven days of searching, we thought we would never see the snow-capped peaks surrounding us. As we were driving out of Darjeeling, Steve commented on the slivers of ...

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 zoo was lovely - but when I got there, it was closed. Bother. Why don't the guidebooks tell you useful stuff - like the zoo's shut on Thursdays? Never mind - I took the opportunity to walk on, and ...

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 had breakfast and met Thupten and the guy who was going to drive us to Darjeeling and headed out from Yuksom. Since it was raining when we first came into Sikkim and couldn’t visit the Tashiding ...

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 arrived with a cold and have found nothing but bad weather.  I have yet to see the Himalayas! I see pictures all over town of the great view, but alas, I see nothing but clouds and rain.  D...

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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 office to keep his office "clean" of all unwanted elements (read people that disturb him). He then started to ask me what I wanted, which was a bit obvious to me standing at the Indian border post with...

Off the deep end.

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 to it when I first arrived.  It was days before I could see the rest of the town sprawled out over the hills from my guesthouse up ontop of the ridge.  From my guesthouse's restuarant, I co...

Adventures in India from two first-time travellers - how will we get on?

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.

A year long road trip driving from Sydney to Southampton in a BMW X5 checking out progress on the Asian Highway Project and visiting 100 world heritage sites along the way

The World Is A Book And Those Who Do Not Travel Read Only A Page...

A link to my weblog where I am recording my trip to India.