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Well me and my two cousins(Jhujhudidi and Chottodidi) decided that we need a short weekend trip out of the city a family vacation types before Jhujhudidi gets married in January.
So this last weekend that is 28th Nov seemed like the best weekend when all of us would be free and we decided to visit Santiniketan.

There were several reasons behind choosing Santiniketan.One although our parents have been then innumerable number of times we haven't been there since we were not even born,second the w… Continue

We arrived at the station at around 6 p.m and our train was from 6.50 p.m. and we were planning things like we would keep our warm clothes out only because the AC would be cold and that we don't want railway food we would buy our own food and all this...and we found out that we don't need to worry about railway food at all because our tickets were not confirmed.Actually when we were going to Darjeeling we were initially on waitlist 220+ and our tickets got confirmed...so we were very sure that t… Continue

It was the day of the infamous road trip, the reason I wanted to chronicle the entire journey on the first place...the day we were saying goodbye to the Queen of Hills and maybe because we were leaving that day th Queen decided to give us the best farewell gift imaginable right from our balcony....a breath-taking,gorgeous,magnificient view of the Kanchenzhonga standing with its snow-covered peaks reflecting golden sunlight from its tip.It was mesmirizing and captivating at the same time.I am add… Continue

We arrived at our hotel [Hotel Ascot] in the afternoon and as hungry as we were we just all went out to put something in our stomach.

Well the best places to eat in Darjeeling is Glennaries and Kevintar;s undoubtedly...I prefer Kevintar's more ...but the first day we tried one of the local Tibetan food joints.Honestly I have had much better Tibetan food sitting here in Kolkata but the food was cheap and warm and we were ravenously hungry.
[A little out of context tip for all the foodies out the… Continue

Suddenly out of the blue sitting in Panu's house the three of us thats Panu,Chaki and I decided that we should go for a short trip over the extended weekend of 10th October 2008.......we had some real exotic ideas you know....going to Paren or Lepchaghat right at the foothills of the Himalayas but within that short a notice we were not able to manage any of the nature resorts and so we resorted to Darjeeling........and Dhruvo ,Aloo,Pablo and last but definately not the least Atanu decided to joi… Continue