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27 November 2018
Going to Longwa I had booked my sumo for 0730 to Longwa for an overnight stay. Last night Aman, who runs the homestay, mentioned the possibility of taking me there instead. He was meant to confirm it to me before bed but it didn’t happen. At 0600, I didn’t have much time for breakfast and […]
26 November 2018
How to get from Dibrugarh to Mon Today is possibly my hardest day, in terms of uncertain and long road travel arrangements and uncertain accommodation at my destination. I wanted to get from Dibrugarh to Mon: My guidebook and internet research suggested that I need to get from Dibrugarh to Sibsagar, change and get to […]
25 November 2018
My flight from Kolkata to Dibrugarh departs at 1230 today. With all that heavy food over the past days, I thought I’d skip breakfast and go to the airport lounge and eat lightly until departure. Checking out around 0815, the hotel bill was INR1000 more than the INR7000 I had expected. At first I was […]
24 November 2018
Flower market & Howrah I Uber’ed to Mallick Ghat after breakfast for its flower market, located next to Howrah Bridge. Supposedly, photography of the bridge isn’t permitted but I stealthily took photos there (and got more brazen as I moved further away). The flower market was pretty colourful but the predominant colour was marigold. There […]
23 November 2018
Arrival We landed on time around 0100. Seated close to the front (because I paid, because I had been auto-assigned a bad seat), I was through immigration promptly. One stands high up on steps at immigration perhaps in order to access the fingerprint scanners that may have been introduced after the desks were made. A […]
12 November 2017
Well, my adventure finishes today as tonight I fly from Delhi to Kuching to spend time with family again. As one adventure finishes, another one takes shape spurred by AirAsia’s sale for travel till Jan 2019. I had a sleepless night in Delhi thinking about their Auckland – Kuala Lumpur fare for NZD199 and Kuala […]
11 November 2017
Today is a big day travelling back to the national capital Delhi. I was at reception about 0640 using the very slow internet to do my online check-in for my Malaysia Airlines flight to Kuala Lumpur and Kuching. I had been assigned a bad seat and luckily I was able to change it to the […]
10 November 2017
Today I wanted to do very little. After breakfast, I decided to enquire about the bus to Siliguri. Essentials like where it left from how long it takes, whether foreigners are OK on it in view of the checkpoint utilised. Answered varied and but all that was confirmed was that it starts in Lower Pelling […]
9 November 2017
Mark and I paid up at the tour company across the road from the hotel at 0900 and hopped into the 4WD. We had booked a car for the both of us as there seemed to be no other tourists in town. The town was very quiet indeed and our hotel and many others seemed […]
8 November 2017
Above: Leaving Darjeeling, I waited for 1h30 before the 4WD shared taxi had a full load and could depart. The first of four wait-and- rides. I had about 10 hours sleep last night to compensate for the early wake-up yesterday (which was preceded by bad sleep). I woke after 0700 and got packed up first […]