Jaigon

Trip Start Sep 28, 2005
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Trip End Dec 24, 2007


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Friday, September 1, 2006

Getting to Jaigon was time consuming but easy. We left at 9.30 in the morning, Polin was ment to be meeting her friend to share a jeep down but he didnt show up. Eventually we left at 10.30 and it took a long 2.5 hours to get down from Darjeeling to Silliguri in the back seats of a shared jeep. Polina felt ill all the way back and i didnt exactly feel great.

From Silliguri we ate a quick thali and then got on the 2pm bus to Jaigon which takes 3.5 hours. We arived at 6pm in the terenchal rain and ate and got an early night - there was nothing else to do!!

We awoke early to make the most of our one day in Bhutan. The Lonely Planet reliably informed uys we could have 1 day in Bhutan without a visa or without paying the usual $200 a day.

Once again the lonely planet let us down Bhutan1
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We got to the boarder and they had no idea what we were talking about!

After talking to the nice Bhutanese man and coming back 3 or 4 times he alowed us to go across for 1 hour! We were thrilled - illegaly crossing a boarder!! He told us if we saw anyone that we should say we got a taxi accross the boarder and to play very stupid otherwise we could get in trouble.

We ran around for our hour trying to find a pegoda, im not sure if we ever found the right one but we saw a nice one. The main differences from India was the language barrier, people rteally cant understand much - not even if you say Gompa to them (an international word!!). We bought 2 t shirts (which we are wearing now) and i got a Bhutan currency note to add to my collection.

We arived back to India after 55 mins and all was good :-)

We then decided to get the bus back to Silliguri as Jaigon was not too nice.
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