Our accommodation- hot water, white sheets and a European toilet after 6 weeks!
In the Tea Gardens
Tenzing Norgay climbing rock.Darjeeling, in West Bengal ( India) is spread over a steep mountain ridge surrounded by tea gardens , with a backdrop of a jagged white Himalayan range, Khangchendzonga.
It was originally part Sikkim ( India) , then invaded by the Gurkhas of Nepal followed by the British ( East Indian Trading company ) who returned it to Sikkim retaining a lease on the uninhabited land. There was an influx of Gurkhas from Nepal to work in the tea plantations as labourers . After independence the Gurkhas’s became the main political force and today there are frictions between them and the state government which has lead to a movement which calls for a separate state- Gorkhaland.
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