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Tea and Trains.
... these little blue engines are still chugging up and down the hill. Before the landslide a diesel loco pulled the trains from Siliguri and the steam engines start half way up at Kurseong but now the diesel loco goes to Kurseong and the steam engines do the "joy ride" to Gloom and back, forty five minutes down the track for the tourists.
Our train pulled into the station pulling the two tiny first class carriages. I took about a hundred photos, watched them ...
Singalila Ridge Trek
... to be an easy one, despite being 24km as it was downhill nearly all the way. In addition to our usual group, today we would be accompanied by a goat, walking on a lead held by our guide. His jokes about it being for this evenings dinner were a little disconcerting, and the goat didn’t look too impressed at the situation either. Never feared though, he was spared (at least from our plates) and handed over to someone en route. We flew through ...
Where the Tea comes from, and the the little train
Where the Tea comes from, and the the little train that couldn't
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I am actually quite sad to say that me and Sal's affair with indian rail has finished as we have run out of railway. We have got to Darjeeling where anyone in their right mind wouldn't build a railway in the first place, but the English built it in 1881. Due to the fact ...
Tea, tea glorious tea!
... rocks are thrown at vehicles, sticks batter vehicles and people if they attempt to go through the road blocks. Vehicles have been set on fire. Even cyclists have to dismount and walk through the blockade. As we couldn't get a bus to Bhairawa (6km north of the border) we took a cycle rickshaw it took 20mins. When we got there we stumbled across 30 or so stranded foreign backpackers all waiting till 5pm when there may or may not be a bus to take them to Lumbini. As there was ...
Where are the mountains?!
... more help and offer for us to look at their hand drawn cartoon map! Defeated we try to use the Lonely Planet's basic map to find the Gompa/Monastery. We walk for 30 minutes down the steep winding mountainside before thinking that we might not be heading in the right direction, a local informs us that we have gone completely the wrong way and to go back where we had started from. The walk back was a sweaty mission, the altitude making ...
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