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Educational site, Specialty museum
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Toy Trains, Tea & Tigers
Darjeeling. Even if you know nothing else about the place im willing to bet that you'll know at least that it grows tea. Very good tea as well as it turns out, unquestionaly the best in the world if you ask the locals. Known as the Queen of the hills, it was a tiny hilltop town until 1816 when the East India Company gained control of the lands. …
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Darjeeling - Monks , Monasteries and brass monkeys
... in world at 8598m, but the other surrounding views are magnificent. On a similar vein, we visit the ' Himalayan Mountaineering Institute ', which has a fascinating history on everest attempts and its summiters. The HMI also holds the cremated body on ...
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Time for tea?
... the birthplace of Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, so there were Everest celebrations here as well. He founded the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute which has an interesting museum documenting the first attempts to conquer the mountain, including the Union Jack ...
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Grounded at 2134m
... the world where snow leopards and Tibetan wolves have been bred in captivity. Within the zoos confines was the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, home to the Everest museum. Inside were a number of biographies and artifacts used by the extraordinary ...
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Darjeeling and the Himalayan Ranges!
... and lighting up the snow capped mountains and I think we might have even see Everest! Then went to the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute which is really interesting, although there was a fantastically patriotic article from a newspaper on the day the ...
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Darjeeling - Yes, the tea place.....
... , gardens and waterfalls, formed out of the hillside. We also managed to get down to the zoo, and the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute beyond, which was set up by Tenzing Norgay. They offered courses, and it is shame that Sumi and ...
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A Mystery Tour in Darjeeling
... a conservation zoo which breeds these animals and returns them to the wild. Further down the hill we visited the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute which Sherpa Tenzing Norgay set up after his ascent of Everest. We were fascinated by the Everest Museum ...
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Anyone for tea?
... , Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe Number One! And was very flavoursome! The HMI was next on the list - the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute founded by the famous Sherpa Tenzing Norgay. It's also his final resting place and there's a lovely statue in ...
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Where the Streets Have No Name
... some great highlights, besides the obvious tea plantations (which we did visit). There is an incredible museum on mountaineering, called the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute. Okay, it isn't just a museum it actually is an institute where you can take ...
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Toy Trains, Tea & Tigers
... port of call (On Zoe's recommendation) was the Zoo. About a 15 minute stroll downhill from Darjeeling centre it also contains the HMI (Himalayan Mountaineering Institute). The Zoo was mostly made up of local Himalayan goats, Wolves and big cats. Most ...
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Amazing Views, Bitterly Cold
... i was nice and clean. I grabbed some breakfast and headed to the Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park which also housed the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute. The Zoo was smaller than I thought, but I saw the Red Panda, Tibetan Wolf, Indian Tiger, A ...
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