View from Darjeeling Railway Station

18th October - Darjeeling

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October 18th 2010
Darjeeling is really beautiful and relaxed. It's so different to Kolkata, which I kind of got used to, and even liked in it's hectic way by the end. The weather is actually really like London in early September. Sunny at times followed by rain. There is little of the heat, crush, humidity of Kolkata here. It's very hilly too. The streets are like Edinburgh or Durham with their steep climbs whic ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more