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Travel Blogs from Darjeeling
La montagne, ça vous gagne
... passées ici, au Cozy Nest Homestay, resteront un excellent souvenir. Nous discutons avec nos hôtes pendant deux heures: vie locale, travail, famille, mariage, tout y passe. On nous offre le thé et à dîner. Wengchuk et sa femme ont ouvert cette chambre d'hôtes il y à juste 1 an. Il s'occupe d'organiser des randonnées pédestres et cyclistes dans les montagnes du coin. Ne pas avoir pu participer à l'un de ces treks restera un regret, mais nous avions décidé dès le début de zapper ...
Hannah Memorial Academy and more..
... Darjeeling: the 'road' looks like a river bed for half of it and you travel about 1 km/hr to make sure the holes and boulders don't break up your chassis. The views over the surrounding landscape and tea plantations are amazing - my pictures will never do them justice!
The school is built on tea plantation land and is a 2 storey building with simple classrooms and black boards. The children were beautiful and amazing and super friendly! i immediately got surrounded ...
Everest Base Camp (5365m), Nepal - A 13 Day Trek
... very hard! The last 400m of the ascent takes places over just 1km, with it being skewed towards the start of that km.
Day 3: Namche Bazar (3440m) – Kunde (3840m) – Kumjung (3780m) - Namche Bazar (3440m) [Acclimatisation day]
To help acclimatise, we trekked up to Kunde and Kumjung to enjoy the views. It looks very much like rural England! Farm land divided with brick walls and small brick cottages along the paths.
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Mountains and Momo's
... there was a guy there who showed us around and had us carry out a number of weird activities (walk around the temple 3 times, climb into a cave and bow your head, hold out your hand and take a piece of string for each member of your family,. eat some strange sweet thing....) and told us that this would bring health and happiness towards all our family! of course, upon completion of our initiation into this cult we were asked for a donation, and a further donation ...
Time for tea and epic journeys
... including two fast asleep toddlers! Having no spare bunks that I could move to, I was faced with an awful dilemma, do I try and survive the 16 hour journey without a bed, (I was already the walking dead after getting up at 3.30am the last few nights) or do I turf them off and take the bed I had paid for and reserved. Answers on the back of a postcard please? I chose the latter, and was convinced that everyone in the carriage hated me, one woman in particular was looking at me ...
Other places to stay in Darjeeling
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Viceroy Hotel
17, Gandhi Road, Darjeeling | 2 star hotelfrom $122 -
Seven Seventeen
H.D. Lama Road, Darjeeling | 2 star hotelfrom $24 -
Olde Main Bellevue Heritage Hotel
Chowrasta, Darjeeling | 3 star hotelfrom $29 -
Krishna Service Apartment
51/1, Lebong Cart Road, Darjeeling | 2 star hotelfrom $48 -
Sinclairs Darjeeling
18 / 1, Gandhi Road, Darjeeling | 1 star hotelfrom $70 -
Darjeeling Gymkhana Resort
The Mall, Darjeeling | Hotelfrom $63 -
Mayfair Darjeeling
Opposite Governor House, Darjeeling | 3 star hotelfrom $217 -
Hotel Sunflower
The Mall, Darjeeling | Hotelfrom $46 -
Dekeling Hotel
51 Gandhi Rd, Darjeeling | 2 star hotelfrom $14 -
Fortune Resort Central, Darjeeling
Robertson Road, Darjeeling | Hotelfrom $96 -
Hotel Traveller Inn Darjeeling
Dr.Zakir Hussain Road, Darjeeling | Hotel -
Hotel Mohit
H.D. Lama Road, Darjeeling | 2 star hotelfrom $51 -
Windamere Hotel
Observatory Hill, Darjeeling | Hotelfrom $186 -
Shangrila Regency
21, Gandhi Road, Darjeeling | Hotel -
Elgin Darjeeling
18 HD Lama Road, Darjeeling | 3 star hotelfrom $137 -
Glenburn Tea Estate
Dist. and Post Office Darjeeling, Darjeeling | 3 star hotel -
Snow Lion HomeStay
27A Gandhi Road, Darjeeling | 2 star hotelfrom $31 -
Sterling Resorts Darjeeling
Ghoom Monastery Road, Darjeeling | 1 star hotelfrom $64 -
Hotel Sonar Bangla - Darjeeling
1/1, Robertson Road, Darjeeling | 3 star hotelfrom $37 -
The Retreat
15 Hermitage Road, Darjeeling | Hotel -
Bellevue Hotel
PO Box 28,The Mall, Darjeeling | Hotel -
Dekeling Resort at Hawk's Nest
2, A.J.C. Bose Road, Darjeeling | 2 star hotelfrom $77 -
Hotel Anand Palace
5,Dr S.M.Das Road, Darjeeling | Hotelfrom $61 -
The Swiss Hotel
15/A Gandhi Road, Darjeeling | Hotel -
Darjeeling Planters Club
7 Nehru Road, Darjeeling | Hotel -
Aliment Hotel
40,Dr. Zakir Hussain Road, Darjeeling | Hotel