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The Funeral Crashers
... The monastery housed a colossal carving of Tibetan Buddhism's representation of the universe, which filled an entire room. More surprisingly still, it was carved by one man alone out of one piece of wood. We then wandered downstairs to find a ceremony in motion and perched next to a Sikkimese family who were observing the ceremony from the sidelines. They had an adorable three year old girl who displayed her interest in us by frequently sticking her tongue out. ...
The day the earth stood still
... so do the only thing that comes naturally to me – I risk the wrath of hell itself, but pull the covers off the bed, then, ironically, run for cover!
Nursing my head and trying to recover my hearing, I wait for Anita outside – the owners have a cute looking cross bred pooch, but as I crouch down and say hello, the hound bears it’s hellish teeth as a warning and scuttles off on it’s ill-bred trotters – the atmosphere is just as frosty ...
From India to Nepal and back again in 4 hours!
... a quaint little wooden outpost made infinitely more hospitable by a roaring fire and the warm welcome of the owners, it is welcome relief from the sudden cold of this bleak and barren landscape.
There is one other Trekker shivering by the fire, David, a very affable character that we get along with almost immediately. Together we all huddle around the “campfire” and while away the wee hours of the evening, exchanging stories, anecdotes and tips on where not to go in ...
Beautiful touring through amazing and cool Sikkim
We are at Yuksom village at 1,850 meters altitude, which was the first capital of Sikkim. We have had two fabulous days of touring and seeing Sikkim with our good driver Tashi. On 12 February we saw first, after three hours of driving, lots of tea gardens near Temi. We stopped at one of them. There was no plucking going on, but a few women and men were doing maintenance.
Then we saw the ...
Mooching around
... at the train station there was a seemingly unmovable queue at the only available ticket window. We tried to hedge our bets by queuing up at two windows at the same time and after much pushing and shoving Annabelle managed to get to the front of her queue.
As soon as she got there we were told that we also had to fill in a form before she could buy the tickets.
20 minutes later we managed to ...
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