Thursday, February 17, 2011

Durge Puja - from Sikkim back to Calvutta

As I mentioned earlier, when going back it was again just me and the French girl travelling. We decided that there were a few things we could see on the way back to Siliguri.
We made a stop at Namchi to see the temple there, here are a few pictures of the temple.




Again we had book seats in a jeep that we could go back to Siliguri with, the jeep was very crowded, I think we ended up sitting 10 or 11 adults and children in the jeep.
When we came back to Siliguri, we found a hotel where we could stay for the night, and the next day we had a train back to Calcutta. We were early at the train station and decided that we could go for a glass of juice, so we bought one from this guy.

On the way home we had 2 confirmed tickets :-) so we had a bed each in the train, this was very good since we were to arrive around 7 in the morning at the station in Calcutta, so we needed the slep. When we came back we found a cafe where we could get a brunch. Even though I have come to like a few of the Indian breakfast specialties I still like a good brunch with, toast, jam, fruit, eggs, sausages and so on.
We had found a hotel in Calcutta where we spend a few days since, there was no mess food at campus until the last night of the holiday. So we spend the rest of the time just walking around in Calcutta sightseeing.
During these days we also needed to pick up our sarees for Diwali, we had bough them before going to Darjeeling and Sikkim and only needed to pick them up, and find assessories.

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