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Darjeeling - town and tea..

Created by Amanda on August 3, 2000

I have a particular affection for Darjeeling. My boyfriend worked here for 6 months, in a village about 6 miles away, called Ghoum. No-one told him that this was the Nepali for "damp" until it was too late…! I visited the town in July 1998, and loved it.

Created by safali on November 12, 2002

I visited Darjeeling with my husband 4 months after getting married. We stayed there for a week. It's a beautiful place, often called "the Queen of Indian Hill Stations".

Created by cosmic chris on May 15, 2002

Darjeeling is a lovely place so leaving was always going to be difficult. The share jeeps down the mountain are fun if a little cramped. None the less the scenery is fanatastic.

Created by Pereon on October 27, 2000

Darjeeling is held as the world's greatest tea, but it is also a place where the wonderful tea is grown along the souhern slopes of the Himalaya around a town built by the English during the Days of Empire in India. It is a rather remote place which can only be reached by flying from Delhi to a nowhere airport called "Bagdogra" and then by what is known as the "toy train" up the mountain side, or as we did it, by jeep. The road is steep and narrow, the ride and the scenery exhilarating! Along the way we stopped at the Mackai Barrie Tea Plantation to learn how the special "Darjeeling" tea is grown, picked, processed in the "old" way used in the days of the English Raj. We were taught how tea is "tasted" by the owner of the plantation, himself, so we could discern the differences in the various grades of Darjeeling. Tea tasting is in itself an art. Then we drank the wonderful silver tip Darjeeling with our host, the silver tip is just the bud at the tip of the stem,which turns slivery when dried...mana of heaven. Pereon

Created by sarad on September 24, 2000

Darjeeling is one of the most beautiful Hill stations of India designed by Britishers in 19th century. Most of the people live here are of Nepalese origine.