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Asia » India » West Bengal » Jaldapara June 18th 2016

The moment I stepped down to NJP station it was absolutely clean and sparkling. Some granite and tile flooring work was still going on. As we moved forward the platform to my utter surprise there was an escalator for us to travel down one floor. Our chauffeur Jogesh was a tall sturdy dark looking man. Our car was a grey color Ertiga. Usually Bolero and Sumo cars are available but we wanted a more comfortable SUV car since we were only two people. We had already arranged with one Mr Atanu who organized this car for us on a daily rental with approximately 100 km travel per day. The moment we left the station my eyes were amazed with the green all around and the lovely not very wide but smooth roads. We would go to ... read more

Asia » India » West Bengal November 6th 2015

Geo: 26.6952, 89.2815We stayed the night at Madari Hutin a guest house, we took a room only for a shower and slept in the roof toptent. Whilst there a Brit and aNepalese arrived and, the Brit was filming a walking expedition starting inAfghanistan and ending in Bhutan for the Discovery Channel. They also were in the same exit of Nepal convoy, so it would seem that when the show airs this footage may make it into the final edit.Lev (the Brit) hada few good tails and the one about a car crash in Nepal was particularly scary.Lisa brought the topic up of how dangerous some of the road were and Lev thentold the story of how during a filming scoping activity the vehicle they werein suffered brake failure on a downhill section in upper Eastern Nepal…. ... read more
Church Camp Ground
Lady cooking Nepali Roti???

Asia » India » West Bengal » Darjeeling » Sandakphu July 8th 2015

It was the winter of 2014..we planned our trek to Singalila National Park and reach Sandakphu, a popular trek destination which allow the trekkers to witness the Mt. Khangchendzonga massif along with some prominent peaks like Mt Everest, Mt Makalu, Mt Lhotse ,3 sisters etc...But unlike others we did not started our trek from the usual starting point of Maneybhanjan rather we did the trek in a reversal mode..On reaching Siliguri, we took a car and reached a small hamlet in West Sikkim called Okhrey, it took us around 7 long hours via Jorethang and reach this beautiful himalayan village of Okhrey, we stayed the night in one of the few Homestay that are manged by locals with strong essence of Tibetan culture. Next morning we took our early breakfast and started our journey to the ... read more
Bersay Rhododendron sanctuary
Bersay
Gorkhey village

Asia » India » West Bengal » Kolkata February 12th 2015

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Asia » India » West Bengal » Kolkata December 29th 2014

Although I had visited Kolkata many times in past I was occupied in other responsibilities and was never free for a whole hearted sight seeing program. This time when I was visiting Bhutan I had to change train at Kolkata and got one full day beak in Kolkata while going and another full day too while coming back. Bangalore Howrah express reached in morning 6.30 and Kanchanakanya express left in 8.30 in the night, thus giving us the full day to spend in Kolkata. We kept the luggage in railway cloak room (platform no 23 in howrah station) and started our journey for kolkata sight seeing. Belur Math Our first destination was Belur math. From Howrah station we went by a town bus and got down at Belur. The math was about 200 meters from the ... read more

Asia » India » West Bengal » Kolkata December 28th 2014

Visiting Belur Math Belur math is about 5kms north to Howrah railway station. There is a railway station near it. But it was too difficult for me to book train ticket and find the exact train which would go to belur. On the other hand I was hesitant to go by town bus as I had experienced pic pockets in town buses during my early visits. I asked a couple of people about how to go to Belur and they told me the bus numbers going towards belur. I thought to take an attempt in the bus. There were seats in the bus. I was always confusing about the ladies seats, senior citizen seats, handicaped seats etc. as I didnt have much of town bus experience. There were no pick pockets and we reached safe in ... read more




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