Darjeeling Travel and Tourism Guide

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 ...

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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...