Banana Chocolate Honey Sugar Lemon Pankakes and Chili Omelette

Mask Dance and Hail Storms

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April 6th 2012
So far this April, the Darjeeling area has already experienced two torrential, afternoon hail downpours which have caused everyone to stay inside all afternoon. Both of them left the landscape looking like it had just snowed there was so much hail on the ground and building roofs. Last week was the annual Bhutanese buddhist masked dance which I was fortunate enough to be able to experience whil ... 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