West Bengal

Lava, Lolay gaon(a.k.a lolegaon) and Rishop, are three small villages of Himalaya in West Bengal, India known for their natural beauty. Lava is situated at a height of 2350 meters. It is around 101 KMs from Siliguri via Kalimpong. Rishop is almost at ...

... press you would know was once the capital city, looks interesting. (Delhi did not become capital until 1912). The hotel in West Bengal really is in a converted fort (built 18th century (1783) and later headed up by the rather austere looking General ...

... like a nice transition back into India. All is not rosy though, as the Darjeeling area is fighting for independence from West Bengal to form an independent state – Gorkhaland. There are protests in the streets, which bloke the roads temporarily, ...

... Glueck friedlich ablief, oftmals kann es auch zu Unruhen kommen). Die Bewegung moechte die Berge hier (Darjeeling, Kalimpong, ...) von West Bengal abtrennen in eine eigene Provinz. Und Samstag ist Markttag, ich habe ein paar Fotos eingespielt. Am ...