Durge Puja - Darjeeling

During the holliday we stayed a few days in Darjeeling, here we meet up with a few of the other student from IIMC. Among other things we went to a sunrise spot called Tiger Hill see link here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Hill,_Darjeeling
Unfortunatly the day we were there it was very clouded, and it was almost impossible to see anything.

But close to there were a Tibetan Buddhist monestary that we went to see and after that we went to see Batasia Eco Garden. Here there are a few pictures from both places.

The next fre pictures are from our hotel room window, the view of some of the city.

The day we left Darjeeling we went to see a tea plantation, before we proceeding to Sikkim. The next pictures are taken while we walked through the city and down the mountain to the tea plantation.

We got the idea to go see the tea plantation because we had meet a guy that told us he would be able to show us the plantation if we wanted and what way we should go to find it. We figured it would be worth a look and knew we had time. On the way to the tea plantation we had booked a jeep that could take us further north to Sikkim. This is a picture of how the tea looks when it has been plucked from the bush, before it get treated in the fabric.

The next picture are the tables where the tea are put up to try before it get processed, into the kind of tea we buy from the stores.

On our way back to the city to get our jeep further north I took a few nice pictures of the tea fields.