Hotel Central Gangtok

... br>Filmen blev i oevrigt for Trussers vedkommende nydt med ganske nyklippet skaeg, da vi paa vejen til biografen slog et smut ind i en af de mange locale barberer og lod fuldskaegget faa en tiltraengt trimning. Det foregik med en haandholdt og lidt rusten saks, som blev foert af en lille mand med meget hurtige bevaegelser. Saksen klippede uafbrudt – ogsaa naar den ikke var i kontakt med skaegget, men i stedet blev faegtet faretruende rundt i lokalet, hans ...

... tasting the local cuisines, seeing the sad poverty, and conquering my fears, doubts, and neurotic tendencies. Of course, this trip had some of these aspects to it some of the time, and didn't at other times. In reality, I was sick almost the whole trip. I was stressed out most of the time. I got scammed out of a small sum of money (only $2.50 American). I met some nice people and some jerks. The food wasn't very good much of the time. I had some ****** hotel ...

... Everybody seemed really relaxed. We went back and took a nap. We could hear the mother and son in the garden trying to round up the goats and the cow, with the puppy following them around barking. At night there was no electricity, so Andrew and I had nothing to do except lay down and stare at the ceiling at talking. It was really peaceful. The boy came up and asked us what time we wanted dinner and we said around 6. At 6 he came ...

... lion faces & there was one scary looking dancer with a huge amount of black and blonde hair and mask, maybe to ward off evil spirits.It was spectacular and I'm told will continue for another 7 days. As it would happen, my camera died right before all of this so I ended up buying a new camera as there's just too much not to photograph. Hopefully tomorrow will bring a similar spectacle as it did today and I can get some pictures. Lesson learned: no matter how light ...

... For my last night in India I treated myself to a single room with air conditioning. Being Sunday the city woke up a little later than it had on my last visit. It took a little more effort to get my morning fruit and chai before meeting up with Andreas again. A large crowd of homeless people gathered on Sudder Street for the free Sunday breakfast served at one of the churches. Andreas was carrying a water bottle and a little boy asked to take it for recycling. In an effort to ...

... zatáčce se zastavili, kose sundali a jejich obsah vysypali do stráně pod silnicí. Vsude okolo krásný les, časté potůčky, které hopsaly přes kameny a tak nás překvapil obsah kosů. Byly plné prázdných lahví místního tvrdého alkoholu. Tady nenajdete kontejnery na bílé a barevné sklo! Rodinka jednoduse vynese lahve - které nejspís vypil táta nebo starsí syn nebo oba dva - do lesa a ten nejmladsí to vzal jako hru: flasky padly do několika metrov ...

... of scary - the formations are literally shattered and pulverised rock that has been gouged by thousands of years of glaciation. So violent yet so slowly at work. Quite amazing all the same. Amidst such forbidding terrain we still managed gentle moments. At night we were serenaded by our wonderful Bhutia guide to the likes of Roxette's "It must have been love". Heaven.

Hi there, I've now managed to recover from being on a train for 26 hours from Delhi to NJP and then a further 2 1/2 hours in a jeep to Kalimpong. Unfortunately Paul spent his 34th birthday all day and night on the train. It wasn't too bad though as we got fed and you can sleep on them, although I think the a/c was down as it was ...

... low that you really couldnt see anything at all apart from 10 metres infront of you. but it was a nice ride and weird to be in a train going up a road. in ghum i had the nicest momos of the trip so far, sat huddled in a little hut/house with the family who ran it sipping on some pretty good soup and loving the warmth. and that evening victoria and i had the NICEST cheest crispy (oh so crispy) bacon and tomato toasted sandwich in Glanary's (if you ever go to darjeeling you have to go to ...

... were slowly uphill following the path of a cool river whitewatering its way through the ages. A couple rickety suspension bridges. The final hour and a half was a steep ascent to 2900m. I passed a slaughtered animal hanging on a fence and a cat waiting in a cabbage patch like a scene from Peter Rabbit. Then we reached our first stop, Tsokha, a town that only exists during trekking season, to sell overpriced Coca Colas and Beers. Tsokha is the first and last night's stop on the ...