Kalimpong
Travel Blogs from Kalimpong, India
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A strange little town to stretch the legs in
... Sikkim (my next destination), I thought I'd break the journey with an overnight stop in a town roughly halfway between the two. Kalimpong's an odd little town. It has a great location on a high saddle with the Teesta river below and huge hills looming ...
Kalimpong - the place of flowers & cheese!
Heya everyone, hope you are well and enjoying the start of the Easter holidays if you have them :-) I'm having a fun weekend in Kalimpong :-) bit of a trek to get here...Julia and I took a 3 hour bus to Darjeeling on Friday after school. Though we ...
Gitkolbong Village
From Kalimpong a 2 hour jeep and a short walk to my friend's home in Gitkolbong village. ...
No spoiler rain, and it started well (Lava)
... that way increasing my Nepali vocabulary :P ). Many of the people doing business there, are not local. They came from different parts of India. Almost all the shopkeepers are from Bihar. It is a fact, "There is a bit of Bihar in every part of India" ...
Sightseeing in Kalimpong
... appear before us. They never did, but it was a lovely way to spend the morning and see a bit of wild India. Plied the road to Kalimpong, back in West Bengal. All the houses had been decorated with garlands of marigolds for Diwali (Hindu festival of ...
Kalimpong
An overnight train ride from Mughal Sarai station (2 hours late) to New Jaipaiguri. A 16 hour train ride to my destination. Then from there another 3 hour bus ride to go up into the hills to ...
Kalimpong
I came back to Kalimpong by a 2.5 hour jeep ride weaving back and forth past tea gardens. I stayed at my friend's room. ...
Kalimpong
... in the world and although much of our time in this region was obscured by cloud, driving west through the mountains to Kalimpong and the Nepalese villages surrounding it revealed some of the most breathtaking scenery I have ever seen. As much time as I ...
Berge im Nebel
Schoener und ruhiger als Darjeeling ist Kalimpong, aber nach einem Tag hat man auch hier alles gesehen und das Wetter bleibt schlecht und meiner Erkaeltung gehts weiterhin gut. Schon 100 Meter bergauf lassen mich in der duennen Bergluft schnaufen wie ...
'If I was rich...I would buy the Taj Mahal'
... would help poor people' * 'I will never...be tall' 'hit children' * 'If I was famous...I would say to the President of India "polish my shoe! " ' 'i would give autographs' The cutest moment of the week had to go to 5 year ...
Kalimpong bound
... studying here at all, as there were so many guys - turns out that the male : female ratio is 5:1!! Quick afternoon in Kalimpong.Set on a shallower gradient of hillside compared to the steep inclines of Gangtok, Kalimpong stretches along for a few km, in ...
Gitkolbong Village
On the back of my friend's motor bike, it was 1.5 hours swerving around the hills to get to his village of ...
Riding, rafting and rallies
...my blog ended abruptly yesterday - were told we had to get out the internet cafe straight away! Yesterday a leader of the opposition movement campaigning for gorkaland was stabbed by masked men in the middle of a peaceful protest through ...
Praise the cheese!
All I accomplished in Kalimpong is cultivating a need to come back to the region. I need to go to Sikkim and to the tribal areas around the North East states. I need to trek in the foothills of the Himalaya and spend time with the incredible ...
Namchi
A 30 minute ride to Rangpo for a Sikkim permit extension. And then a 2 hour ride on a jeep and stopping over in Jorethang for a change of ...
Kalimpong
A 4 hour jeep ride through flat tea gardens and then a steep climb up to the West Bengal hills to arrive in ...
From Travel Crazyness to Village Peacefulness
... a piece of paper in pencil to take the train from Delhi to New Jalpaigure, then catch a Jeep from NJP to the city of Kalimpong, then catch another Jeep to the villiage of Kaffer, then ask people where he was. So looking at my all important piece of ...
Gitkolbong Village
A 1.5 hour jeep ride from Kalimpong and then a 1 hour hike to get to my destination in the ...
Ready, Set, TEACH!
... letters My Name is Tim. I am from America. and continued to draw a butchered picture of the world and labeled both America and India. I held out my hand as an airplane and tried to explain that I came over in airplane drawing a big arc from country ...
Kalimpong
From Kolkata I took a 10 hour overnight sleeper train to New Jalpaiguri station. I changed onto a jeep and went up into the hills for a 2 hour jeep ride to Kalimpong. I settled into my friend's empty apartment room. ...
Kalimpong, back in West Bengal
... , hat aber auch noch einen Blick auf Kanchenjunga (bei Fernsicht, nicht heute...). Das Himalayan Hotel in Kalimpong hat einige Everest Expeditionen beherbergt (u.a. die Erstbesteiger), ich bin dort aber nicht abgestiegen:-) Kalimpong produziert ...
Kalimpong
A 2 hour jeep ride back to Kalimpong from the village, stopping over in Pedong and visiting a friend ...
Shout Out #34
... with it. "Sure, I'm done. Have it." He smiled and we had the usual talk about where we're from. He lives in Kalimpong but works in Darjeeling. Each month he gets to go home for a couple days. Once we'd become acquainted he started pointing out the ...
Jeep Rides and Football
Carpooling I woke up on Sunday September 12th prepared for the adventure. It was the day that I left the comfort of being around my American friends, Ryan and Amanda, and dove into the Nepali world that I would surround myself with for the next ...
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