Yesterday we climbed down then up, today it was up then down. If you get high enough you can see...
We upset the tea wagon
Yesterday afternoon it took just over two hours to get to the Glenburn tea estate. Our planned...
Gangfok it took a long time to get here
The alarm goes off at 04:45, our bags are packed, we’re ready to go. A short boat ride back to the...
Udaipur “The Venice of the East”
When you take a look back at your 270 year old hotel in the middle of a man made lake from the 500...
Kangchenjunga
We get in the car at 04:45 to drive to Tiger Hill to watch other people watch the sunrise while we...
Ew! Diaper
We get up in the morning and have the best home made jam in at least three continents. We say good...
A day in Gangtok
What to do today? I know, let’s drive through another traffic jam to go see a monastery. This one was only 24 km away. We had to pack a lunch (just kidding although we did have some snacks in the car). There were guards with rifles at this one. Two different sects of...
Missed the Movie
We park in old Jaipur and walk around for a bit of early morning shopping. Nancy interacts with a shop keeper for a beach cover up shirt thing. He opens with 4600 rupees (about $90). Negotiations immediately end and we walk away with me yelling back “no way” and the...
A Why Point
As in in why are we stopping here and not going straight to Udaipur? I take a pill and say OK, enjoy what the day brings. Some trucks loaded with hay A view of some man made lakes from a 15th century fort owned by the family at the place we...
A Change in Plans
We wake up to heavy fog and can barely see a soccer ball in front of our faces. So we wake up the travel agent, cancel the hike and hocus pocus no more Gangtok traffic, we are off to Darjeeling, home of tea and twits (they use to go there to escape the heat) But...
The Spitting Camel and Hold the Phone
Dispatches by Barlon from India. Actually it was an Indian kid on the gangway to get on to the plane in Toronto that turned around and spat at us. Welcome to India. No problems with the plane. Then … Fahk. We get through customs buttery smooth but no welcoming man....