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Hotel Soyang Gangtok

Mahatma Gandhi Marg Gangtok, Sikkim, 737101, India

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The Zoos in the foothills of the Kangchendzonga

A travel blog entry by glassbird

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... 5 minutes away. Up the hill we head for quite a while and pay the entrance fee with no senior’s discount. Pat is on the mission to find a toy leopard for Soukie but the ones they sell are larger than our bags. She cannot believe with all the plastic **** available there is not one snow leopard reproduced for children, nor a children's book.

We have paid good money (a dollar each) so we figure we should get our money’s worth and we do. I ...

Sikkim-more monasteries and snow-capped mountains

A travel blog entry by diannemurray

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... the clouds move enough so we can just see the peaks, particularly the reputedly most beautiful peak, west of Kanchenjunga, but the view is nowhere near as clear as our view out of our bedroom window yesterday! We take a lot of photos of the peaks, and back into the valley. While we are waiting, our guide digs up some red, fluted bulbs which he says is cardamom. The pulp is sweetish, but the seeds have a very distinct Vicks Vaporub taste. Further along the road, ...

Sleepers Creepers

A travel blog entry by ricduncombe

... best avoided, at least until I see someone else do it and escape punishment).

Inside the carriage thought things were not quite as I had expected. I had visions that the most expensive cars were something akin to palaces on wheels and down in sleeper I would be in an identical booth to that of my African train. Not at all. The African carriage would be top dollar here in India and sleeper class was nothing more than a sort of human warehouse with beds ...

Darling Darjeeling

A travel blog entry by benrocket

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... When I say jeep, I mean the Indian version of course. There were twelve of us crammed in and I was in the very back facing sideways. Up the mountains we wound with the endless bumps and corners.  One can imagine my surprise when we stopped to pick up a local, hitching a ride up the hill. He literally stood over me (as there was definitely no seat space) holding on to the handles from the ceiling for the entire journey. This made us a total of 13 plus the ...

Tea Time (So much stuff!)

A travel blog entry by beckiablaze

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... three and a half minutes long. I wish this was an exaggeration (not that I EVER exaggerate) but really the tour was that short. We made our way outside, trying hard not to be disappointed when we were beckoned towards a little tea stall just outside of the Estate. The Germans* invited us with them and we wandered inside.
Behind the tea stall there was a little room set up with benches that ran along the walls cushioned with various throw pillows. Charlotte, the Germans ...

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