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Cold Days & Warm People
"Maya Aunty?" said a little voice as Alan and I returned in pitch darkness back to our hotel last night. There was the usual power outage that happens on a regular basis all across India.
"Yes ..." I answered as I saw a little shadow move across the doorway of the block of apartments that shares the same driveway to our hotel ..."is that …
And so this is Christmas ... in Darjeeling
4am and the alarm rings.
You are probably thinking what an unearthly hour to wake up while on holiday but today was the day when we bit the bullet and decided to take the trip up to Tiger Hill to see what we could see of the morning sunrise over the Himalayas. With the weather, it was definitely a gamble as very often by 9am clouds would …
Was that a mouse I saw?
Ok so we survived the mouse infested train from Kolkata, now we have to get a car to take us to Darjeeling which is apparently a few hours drive away. After negotiating with the drivers at the train station we pile ourselves into a small little car and head up the huge hill, through army camps galore. We get there and the driver is a little lost …
Singalila Ridge Trek
... trodden paths through undergrowth which was even steeper and more difficult. And barely shorter at all. An hour of this, and I was seriously second guessing my belief that I could do this. Eight months on the road with very little in the way of demanding exercise – thank God for those yoga sessions or I’d have never made it. With a constant fight between lungs and legs to see which could burn the most, the two hours ticked by painfully slowly ...
Everest Base Camp (5365m), Nepal - A 13 Day Trek
... up to the mountain villages.
Sounds: The rustling of the Snickers wrapper that we depended on daily (Travel Tip: Buy lots of chocolate in Kathmandu or Namche Bazare...as its 1/3 of the price).
Smell: Cinnamon...bizarrely we walked through many areas where the air was filled with the smell of cinnamon! No idea what the plant looks like as we’ve only ever seen the ‘sticks’ in jars at the supermarket, but pretty sure we walked ...
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