Or should the title read traffic, traffic, traffic, people, people, people? This place is bustling, people and vehicles mixing on the narrow roads - how no one gets run over I haven't a clue! But I guess traffic and people, car horns and smells are what I'm expecting now. And Darjeeling us much, much less smelly than Kolkata, and also much less litter strewn. There's a campaign, just started, to make India litter free by 2018. Here they'll do it, in Kolkata they haven't a hope! Here, too, vendors leave you alone to browse - and the Oxford Bookshop is a joy!
We did the toy train from Kurseong almost to here, before bailing and taking the car, we've done Tiger Hill at dawn (3am start!!) - such an experience - the new sun lighting first Katchenjunga, then The Three Sisters, and finally Everest itself. We visited the zoo, and the mountaineering museum, the Tibetan Refugee Centre, and tasted more different teas than I thought existed - think wine tasting with tea and you've got the idea.
The festival is not yet over - puja for Durga - it goes on seemingly forever - yesterday there was a concert just below the Hotel, and I watched the little girls perform first Nepalese dancing, then a more Bollywood style - great fun.
Off to Sikkim tomorrow - looking forward to it, especially now we've conquered Delhi belly!
I'd put on photos but the web isn't co-operating! Will post separately when I work out how!
We did the toy train from Kurseong almost to here, before bailing and taking the car, we've done Tiger Hill at dawn (3am start!!) - such an experience - the new sun lighting first Katchenjunga, then The Three Sisters, and finally Everest itself. We visited the zoo, and the mountaineering museum, the Tibetan Refugee Centre, and tasted more different teas than I thought existed - think wine tasting with tea and you've got the idea.
The festival is not yet over - puja for Durga - it goes on seemingly forever - yesterday there was a concert just below the Hotel, and I watched the little girls perform first Nepalese dancing, then a more Bollywood style - great fun.
Off to Sikkim tomorrow - looking forward to it, especially now we've conquered Delhi belly!
I'd put on photos but the web isn't co-operating! Will post separately when I work out how!
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