Arriving in Darjeeling from Sikkim, I went back to the same guest house at which I had stayed previously, knowning that I'd never be able to find anything cheaper than 100 Rupees ($2) a night. True, there was no running water, and the owner and his brother were nuts, but I pushed these thoughts out of my mind as I headed back there. I was receiv...

We spent the next three days relaxing in Darjeeling, which turned out to be a really nice vacation in the relaxing sense of the word. Friday October 3 I woke up early and couldn't get back to sleep, so I decided to go out for a walk. Although all the shops weren't open at 6 am, there were a surprising amount of people out. I even saw a couple of...

Isn't life interesting. Lord knows India is. Just yesterday I was frazzled in the sweltering nastiness of Calcutta, and today I am sipping Darjeeling tea in the Himalayas! Talk about contrasts. Just when you think things are a certain way, life shows you that things are not always as they seem, and there is nothing like a jaunt into nature to bo...

Aloha! Before we catch up with the rest of events, have to tell you about our last hours in Kolkata. We wanted to see the bridge and the river so were walking towards it when we heard this little "you are very tall sir" next to us, coming from some little Indian guy. He started to walk with us and for some bizarre reason Aaron pretended we were ...

do you ever stop and ask yourself, "how did i get to this point in my life?" i woke up this morning at 3am to go to this place called tiger hill to watch the sunrise with the people im currently traveling with. as the sky lightens and your surroundings are revealed, the massive outline of a mountain appears and then clarifies. at the moment i do...

(Nicole) Cuppa tea, anyone? After the 16hrs train ride from Varanasi, we finally made it to a quant hill station called Darjeeling...but not wothout a minor problem. At the train station, we somehow almost lost each other. An old man was trying to show us how to get to our seats and that ended up splitting us apart. Peter was yelling out my name...