We arrived in Darjeeling last night.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a hill station smack in the middle of the Himalayas.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve hooked up with a couple from France and have been traveling with them since Bodhgaya.<\/p>\n
Darjeeling borders Nepal, China, and Bhutan, and as far as we’re concerend the last Indian stayed 50kms down the mountain.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s all Chinese, Tibetans, Nepalese here.\u00c2\u00a0 Needless to say, it’s cold.\u00c2\u00a0 Water is a luxury, and our guest house brings one big pail of steaming hot water every morning for us to take a shower.\u00c2\u00a0 Today we had the best hot shower ever.\u00c2\u00a0 You don’t appreciate hot water until you’re forced to scoop it from a pail at 3 celsius (with no central heating).\u00c2\u00a0 Last night we wore all our clothes to bed.\u00c2\u00a0 Lucky for me, it’s our anniversary :).<\/p>\n
The view from our room is breathtaking.\u00c2\u00a0 We can see the surrounding Himalayas, and from the rooftop we can see snow covered Mount Kanchenjunga, India’s highest peak and the third highest peak in the world.\u00c2\u00a0 Mount K is just a mere 252 meters less than Everest, so to my untrained eye it’s the same.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow morning we’re hiring a Jeep to see the sunrise over Mount K.\u00c2\u00a0 On a clear day you can see Mount Everest.<\/p>\n
Fingers are frozen, must stop typing.<\/p>\n
p.s.\u00c2\u00a0 Internet is far too slow to upload photos.\u00c2\u00a0 Will do so when we return to less than 7000 feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We arrived in Darjeeling last night.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a hill station smack in the middle of the Himalayas.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve hooked up with a couple from France and have been traveling with them since Bodhgaya. Darjeeling borders Nepal, China, and Bhutan, and as far as we’re concerend the last Indian stayed 50kms down the mountain.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s all … Continue reading And then we went to China…<\/span>