Hello, hello,
Bimala and I stayed two nights ago in Siliguri. It was supposed to take 16 hours on a bus and it took 23 from Kathmandu…..It’s just so much damn fun you know!! From there we came to Darjeeling in a Jeep and arrived 2 days ago. It is a great little mountain town with tea gardens and monastaries. We have to stay one more day today and will leave tommorrow because of no space on the trains. We could have left today but standing room only……not the greatest situation. We will have a sleeper train tommorrow and it should take about 19 hours to reach our next destination to Varanasi. It is the oldest city in the world and a very spiritual place for Hindus with many temples. She has a Russian friend that we are going to meet when we get there and maybe stay with him or he will def. show us around. Today we are going to a Japanese temple about 30 minutes away. We did not plan to stay this long but are making the best of it and from this point forward will definitely reserve seats a few days before.

It has been a really nice time thus far and can only get better!!

Love
Camen