Glenary's

High Tea in Darjeeling

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December 14th 2009
After a mammoth 24 hour journey of bumps and little sleep on bus and then jeep we arrived in the beautiful hill station of Darjeeling. The windy, slow ascent meant we were going to stay here for a while whether we liked it or not. Sitting at 2000m above sea level its hillside remoteness and mountainous beauty was a heady combination and a nice continuation from Nepal. Our Hotel was, predictably, ... 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