The best trip ever?

This really was amazing!!!

Hi reader,

Hope you're doing good ;)

 

So if you have read most of my blogs (If you haven't please check all of them out), you probably know that I travel a lot. I love travel and take every opportunity to go on at least a 30 minute tour. Many of you must be wondering "Hey Diya, of all the places you've gone, which was your most favorite? Maybe it was that beach trip you blogged about earlier or maybe you had a trip abroad that you haven't blogged about yet".

 

Don't worry, there is an answer to that burning question. For starters I haven't been abroad before so no, it wasn't in Japan or Canada (But I may be able to go when Covid-19 ends). It was actually my trip to Kalimpong, West Bengal that was my favorite.(It was 2 years ago)

 

Oh, I didn't write about the Kalimpong trip? No problem, let me write about it now.

 

It went a bit like this…

Day - 1

Normally we set out on trips by car from our house. This time along with my parents and aunt, I had traveled to my maternal grandparents (They were coming too) house in Siliguri,WB and 2 weeks later, was going on this journey to Kalimpong,on the lesser Himalayas🌄 by a rented jeep.

Our journey went the usual way any trip with my grandparents does. Me and my grandfather were ready to go but the rest of the household were rushing around like the first scene in Home Alone-1.

After some time we were all ready to go. I climbed onto the back of the jeep with my Dad and the luggage, my aunt,mom and grandmother were in the middle row and my grandfather and the driver were up front. We drove a few kilometers and ate breakfast in a restaurant in Sevoke. Post lunch we visited a plantation full of cactus plants. We saw normal cacti, flower bearing cacti, oddly colored cacti, basically lots of cacti. (Bonus:In the left-side  picture, try to spot two dogs🐶)

We bought two small cacti and then drove uphill (we also saw river Teesta) that's when the fog came to greet us. For some reason I really like the sight of fog, so the view was breathtaking (Even though we could see nothing but fog). We drove to the famous Durpin Monastery where we did a bit of sightseeing.

 

The monastery was beautiful. We could even see a small school from up there (The kids in that school are very lucky to study in this type of environment). After having a good time there, we drove higher, from here we could see At noon, we parked our car and walked up a steep road to eat WB's most favorite dish, the dumpling (or Momo as it is called here). We had a lunch of momos and thukhpa (noodles with soup).

At about 3:00 p.m, the sky had become much clearer. We decided to visit a famous view point. Not only did we get an awesome view, there was also a swing and a small tea shop

We finally reached our hotel (The Yuru Retreat) at 4:30 p.m. After checking into our dorm (There were no normal rooms available at that time and there were 6 of us), we drank some tea (I drank hot chocolate).

Then at 4:45 p.m, we visited the Delo park. It was a large open space where you can walk. It was the best part of the trip. Just look at these pictures!

We spent a few hours at Delo park and came back when it was too cold. We had dinner and went to sleep (It was so cold, the fur blankets felt like ice) I was looking out the window and looked at a very dark place (so dark,it looked vantablack) I thought it was just some plains. I was disappointed that I couldn't see any signs of Himalayan ranges. I expected to atleast see a small peak. I was sad and just went to sleep.

But I was so wrong! Next day I woke up suddenly at 7 a.m because I was sleeping dangerously close to the edge of the bed and was slowly starting to glide of the rather high bed. I glanced at the window and made a shocking discovery. The vantablack space I had seen last night was in fact, a part of the Himalayan range containing Kanchenjunga!(even Mount Everest!) We all went to the terrace to watch the spectacular sight.

After seeing a spectacular view and eating breakfast, we drove a long way back to Siliguri. And 2 years later, still regard this as arguably the best trip ever (for now atleast).

Hope you liked the trip as much as I did. See you in the next blog.

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