Thursday, April 27, 2006

Sun Rise at Tiger Hill

23 March 2006



Tourists (mostly Indians) waiting for the sun to come up.

Next day we went up to Tiger Hill. Famous spot to watch Sun rise in Darjeeling. The onwer of Guest House told us to wake up at 4 AM so we can make it at Tiger Hill around 4 : 30 but anyway, this driver came to pick us up nearly 5 AM. How nice! That morning was SO cold.


Sun is rising, now you can hear people "ohhh..", "haaaa..",

Chomik, A guy I met on the train told us that it's wonderful up here. Well, it's not bad indeed. And he said that watching sun rise while sipping a cup of coffee is not a bad idea at all.

"They have a cafe there?" I asked
"Nooo.. but they will come to you"

found it more entertaining to watch people not to sun. Family with kids.. and their kids are fighting while dad and mom are busy finding best spot to stand, Ladies in colorful Sari but wearing flip-flops, etc


And they really come to you. The Coffee Girls.

Girls selling hot coffee for Rs 5/ cup. (That was smallest cup of coffee I've ever seen) Seems to be good business. Everyone orders coffee..coffee..coffee! I wonder why not tea. This is Darjeeling! Give me tea! :-P Damn, and that was too fucking cold up there.



People are still waiting. But once the sun came up.
Everyone just left right way. Now I feel sorry for
the sun.



I know, stupid face but the cap is cute :-P


In the clear days you can see mountain peaks from here. Including kanchenjunga. (meaning "Five Treasures of the Snow") The world second highest mountain.. too bad that day it was too cloudy. We could see only one peak on Kanchenjunga. Well, better than nothing!


At the Gompa

After Tiger Hill. The driver took us to Gompa (Buddhist Monastery) Bunch of indian tourists in there. Looks kinda wierd seeing them taking photos with little lama as if he was their little brother. There's one little Buddha statue from Thailand too.


Lama in Studying room

Older lama showed us "Study room" where young lamas are practicing their lessons. And for those outside the room. They're sitting with book in hands.. facing the wall. So they won't be distracted.


Some kind of bread? I dunno...

Gurkha Memorial Garden in Ghoom (I love the name of this city!) Not much to see here but they have fun activity which you can rent the costume of Gurkha soldiers for a few rupees. I don't need to tell you this coz you might have guessed already, my friend ran to one of these guys and rent a costume, dressed himself like Gurkha soldier.. Man, that was embarrassing!



Me and (fake) Gurkhas from Kolkata..hehehe


We finished small day tour, my friend wanted to send photo-CD back home and couldn't do that at smaller post office near our GH.



Darjeeling Main Post Office. I slept there for almost an hour.

So we had to go to "Main Post Office" further away. That guy at post office spent HOUR packing the CD by wrapping it with newspaper (many layers) and wrapped it again with cotton fabric and sew it!

Incredible India.


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