Blogs from Gangtok, Sikkim, India, Asia - page 4

Transfer Representative is the most responsible job and backbone for any travel and tourism industry. I worked in TCI, Travel Corporation (India) Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi as a Duty Officer and a Transfer Representative for last 1 year and 4 months……….Its really a unique kind of job, Transferring and giving the assistance to clients from Airport (International or Domestic) to hotel or hotel to airport and Railway station to hotel or hotel to Railway station. Transfer Representative represents their company and the country too………. Many people don’t know about Transfer Representative and those who knows they think that this is a low category of job. People have misconception about Transfer Representatives. They think that it is a very simple job. Usually people hate this job and those who are involved in this job they are treated ... read more

Come Summer and its travel time. The destinatin is Gangtok, Nathulla & Dargeeling starting from Kolkata the year 2007 during May. We reached Calcutta on a humid afternoon , after checking in the hotel were off to the local places. My friend Viswanath's daughter Sandhya accompanied us for the trip & was a good company for my daughter through out.The local trip started with the famous Howrah bridge, the second Hoogly Bridge, the botanical gardens were for the day one. The victoria memorial the land mark of kolkata was of course in the list. The second day stared off wtih a visit to the Belur Math where lies the memorial of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Swami Vivekananda. This is beautiful spot and the marble memorial is worth the visit. The second half of day was dedicated to ... read more

Due to very slow internet connections, a serious lack of usable SD card readers, a lack of time, and a generous supply of personal laziness I gave up on blogging. Sorry to all of my dedicated fans. Michael I will have loads of pictures when I return!... read more

On my first night in Gangtok over a dinner of momos (oh how I had dreamed of them in the rice-worshipping planes!) I met two Canadian guys who were doing a motor-cycle tour of North India. They weren't necessarily the kind of people I would normally find myself at a table with (one had just had a hernia from the strain of riding on bumpy Indian roads and he immediately regaled me with stories of how his balls had been burnt by errant cleansing fluid in a Gangtok operating room), but I found that I was easily drawn into conversation that revolved around traveling. The hernia one had been travelling since November (on an extended stop-over between living in Canada and living in Australia) and quickly convinced me of the necessity of visiting Jordan and Syria ... read more

14 mars: Ce matin, on déjeune dans un resto caché d’un hôtel inconnu à Gangtok. Notre faible café transparent goûte l’eau et nos sandwichs font éclater nos papilles gustatives. Allez-y! Déjeuner à l’indienne demain matin! Voici la recette du club sandwich spécial quatre étages : Prenez cinq toasts frettes et faites-en un sandwich. Première étage: carottes et choux râpé Deuxième étage: galette de porc avec son gras Troisième étage: poulet frit émietté Quatrième étage: oignons hachés, ail et tomates en cubes Ajoutez-y un œuf miroir dégoulinant sur le dessus… puis servez le avec 4 frites en accompagnement… et 2 cerises au marasquin. On se rend à une agence touristique aujourd’hui. On regarde dans quelle aventure on pourrait bien se lancer. Le gars au comptoir b-b-b-égaille en anglais cassé. Il nous v-v-v-end une ride d-d-d-e... read more