The East India Trip

My first trip to East India was a mixed bag .
It all started last tuesday early morning 5.00 at the chennai airport.
we planned to visit Darjeeling,Calcutta and Gangtok.To our surprise we found our friend at the airport who also planned for the same schedule as ours.

We boarded the Jet Airways 9W 841 to calcutta .I was very much disappointed for 2 reasons.First the air hostess was not up to the mark and next the food served.Gosh!It was a shit.
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Landed at Calcutta at 8.30.Then we had to wait for 3 hrs for connecting flight to Bagdogra.Calcutta airport wasnt up the mark.the flight got delayed
by 30 min.At 12.00 we boarded the flight to Bagdogra.We landed there
at 1.00 and proceeded to Darjeeling in a cab via siliguri.The journey to darjeeling
was chilly.The cloud licked us.

We reached Darjeeling only to get disappointed.The Queen of Hills wasnt as impreassive as its title.The was lots of dirty things around.The only saving grace was the hotel room we stayed.It was better compared to others.The first day we dint go anywhere as we were tired .So we retired for the day.

The second day was the most mokkaiest day of the trip.t was raining and only my parents and brother went for local sightseeing and i stayed back in room enjoying nature's beauty ,moreover it was raining whole day.

The third day was very entertaining.We got up early at 2.00 A.M to catch the glimpse of sunrise and Mt.Kanchunjenga at tiger hills.Words cant xpress the beauty of nature at tiger hills.Chancey illla.........the sunrise view was out of the world and Kanchunjenga tooo..

I had vomitted thrice on the way to Darjeeling .After coming back from tiger hills ,went to a monastery and rail mueseum which wasnt tat much impressive. .Then we started for Gangtok at around 10.00 am.The driver was driving at the speed of 80km/hr in hill roads.
I was terror struck seeing the way he drived.At around 3.00 we reached Gangtok.The hotel room was not bad and i preferred to fill my tummy with liquids. .After relaxing for an hour , we started for local sight seeing.We went to local buddhist mueseum where we found lot of interesting things about the sikkimese.As photography was prohibited,i took only with my dabba cell camera.Take a look at the robes worn by sikkim kings.

After that a visit to the monastery and some shopping completed the agenda for the day.

The next day we went for changu lake and nathula pass better known as the silk route .
it was a wonderful journey along the border roads.There was a little adventure also,i took a photo with bofor's birangi suddenly the army jeep was chasing our cab,asked us to show our and asked us to delete the birangi photo as it would interfere with security reasons.Then we went to nathula pass from where we saw THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA in a telescopic view.From there we went to baba mandir,baba means not God ,its an army officer Harbhajan Singh's mandir.His photo and the story behind the baba temple is given below.

After coming back from this tiring journey,we had awesome dinner at our distant relative's house.Then we retired for the day.

Next day we started earlier ina cab back to Bagdogra from where we boarded the flight back to calcutta.We reached calcutta around 5.00 p.m.We stayed at my father's friend's place.
The Bengali beauties bowled me .That evening v did some shopping.I dint mind my mom spending some time at the saree shop as long as there were very beautiful girls to engage me.

My Brother had some health problem ,so some time were lost,so we couldnt visit few places. Then next day we went for calcutta local sightseeing.Dakshaneshwar temple,Victoria memorial,Ramakrishna Mission and Kali temple.

The Must see place in Calcutta is Victoria Memorial.The entire history v studied in our schooling was revisited in just 200-300 photos.Lot of oil painting by Emily Eden after whom Eden Gardens was named.Photography was strictlly probihited at victoria memorial and ramakrishna mission,but still managed to take few.

After visiting these places ,we took rest for few hours and boarded 9W 842 and flied back to Madras.
On the whole the trip was paisa vasool.There were many surprising things.
I cant believe ,they r following traffic rules and they r not using plastic at all.

evalo thaan irundhalum,there is no place in this world like West Mambalam in Chennai.