Tarika Gangtok

... have 6 people in our kitchen. to work it out, there were 43 mangos in our 10kg portion....that's a lot of mangos. there is nothing like an indian mango. a taste like no other. i have learnt many new ways to enjoy this magical fruit, including cutting the top corner and sucking out the insides much like a smoothy. brilliant. so brilliant that i over did it. after only two wonderful mango eating days my stomach started gergalling. so loud, so painful, so ...

... His mom is not prepared for it, but she quickly rolls down the window and pushes his head out... there goes all his cheesy puffs. A few minutes later, the kid's dad is motioning us. He's sitting next to Eddie with his cheeks bulging, hand over his mouth and has a crazed, desperate look in his eye. Apparently it runs in the family. We yell at the driver to pull over, he ignores us, but we yell louder, "PULL ...

... A lightly populated state, no one is hungry or without a home, and anyone with a semi-reasonable business plan for infrastructure, small business, etc. can receive 3 lakh INR for a project - two years interest free loan. This explained why throughout Sikkim you see construction project signs proudly celebrating the completion of a project within a two year period. Assam and the other China bordering NE States don't have such funding from Delhi because ...

... just how loud it is when every vehicle on the road uses their horn. Its a form of communication and on the back of the trucks/cars it reads " use horn." Well, they got that part down well. Its the signal for coming around a curve, for moving over, for get out of the way, to warn you as you walk that someone's behind you and get over before you get hit! This internet cafe is the nicest yet. There are 4 computers, and my god, the chairs are actually padded, we didn't ...

... ný a několikrát jsme byli někým vyruseni. Jednou musel odběhnout, protoze kláster navstívila jakási důlezitá osoba, pak byl problém s personálem a dnes musel zpět do chrámu, protoze se přijímali malí mnísci. Já zničeho nic cítila neuvěřitelně silnou bolest ve spáncích a na čele, tak vítání mnísků sledoval Max beze mně. Pan Yongda mě zavedl do svého pokoje, kde bylo kromě postele jen několik poliček, sk ...

... ch hotelů - příjemné místo se dá vytvořit z minima. Nechyběl ani Flik a Flok, dva pavouci, kteří nás snad pronásledují - nejdřív byli v ashramu na záchodě, na kazdé straně jeden. Tady byl jeden nad Massimovou hlavou a druhý nad mojí. To se pak zdají sladké sny. Byli jsme tedy víc nez nadseni a jen co jsme chatku dostali, pozvali nás inzenýři na oběd. No teda, to bych nečekala. Pět chlapů tu má k dispozici dva lidi na vaření a nejspís i na uklízení a protoze uz byly tři odpoledne, va ...

... become a temporary member for the day and come in to enjoy this "old boys club" from the british raj era. I had high tea on the verandah of the Planters club in Darjeeling..........eiw HOW POSH. They thought I was a heathen when I put in 3 spoons of sugar but I had to make it drinkable. As good as it all sounds there was going to be another indefinite strike starting tomorrow and I needed to get out cos Ive had enough of the cold at this God awful guest ...

... 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 ...

... and at one point, one of the silly Frenchmen took a tumble into the churning, frigid waters, only to fished out soon after, bearing an exasperated look on his face.       And I was attacked by monkeys.  That's right, literally chased down the road by a couple of aggravated apes.  I had come upon them as I walked uphill form an observation point along the "mall," a popular pedestrian road.  I saw them at a distance.  Vast quantities of baboons and their little babies romping around in ...

... luck would they bring, so the sikkimese believe. Whatever it is, they certainly, keep the places pretty and lift the spirits of weary trekkers. We were warned by the waiting porters that we would have to walk faster to reach Bakhim. There was no question of reaching Tsoka anyway since we started late. Yuksom to Bakhim trek would normally need atleast 6 hours. The porters pointed towards some white dot on the mountains way up and indicated that that was Tsokha. My heart skipped a beat ...