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Saturday, January 05, 2008
Moving to new site for blog and home.
The old site (http://blufox.batcave.net) got deleted by the site administrator (possibly because of their policy of deleting sites with out updates to the front page). But any way, my current homepage is here and the blog is here.
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Back from trekking
Back from a 20 day trekking in Calcutta (Sandakfoo), Nepal and Bhutan. (As usual no pictures :) ). We could actually see the Kanjan(Dzonga) and Everest from Sandakfoo peak. The nicest part was Thimphu and Paro. Thimphu looked like houses planted on
a chess board with every building looking exactly the same, and every one looking like they are coming out of schools in uniform. Paro was much saner in that respect.
Had a chance to visit the tigers nest.
Interesting experiences:
While we were going to DorjeeLing (Darjeeling) the curfew was on, One of the political parties fighting for separation of darjeeling and WestBengal called the bandh, and the toy train got stopped in between. We hired a taxi, and tried to get past the blocked roads to our camp organized by YHAI. Unfortunately we were stopped by the party people and the driver got beaten up. We still made it after it became dark (at 2 AM in the morning.) Other than that the trek was uneventful. Any way, It made me learn more about the history of nepal, WestBangal, Sikkim, and DorjeeLing and why the people of DorjeeLing wanted to separate from WB and accede to Sikkim.
btw: DorjeeLing means the land (Ling) or the Dragon, and Dzonga means a mountain or a fortress, So KanjanDzonga means a golden mountain. ¶ 7:58 PM 0 Comments
a chess board with every building looking exactly the same, and every one looking like they are coming out of schools in uniform. Paro was much saner in that respect.
Had a chance to visit the tigers nest.
Interesting experiences:
While we were going to DorjeeLing (Darjeeling) the curfew was on, One of the political parties fighting for separation of darjeeling and WestBengal called the bandh, and the toy train got stopped in between. We hired a taxi, and tried to get past the blocked roads to our camp organized by YHAI. Unfortunately we were stopped by the party people and the driver got beaten up. We still made it after it became dark (at 2 AM in the morning.) Other than that the trek was uneventful. Any way, It made me learn more about the history of nepal, WestBangal, Sikkim, and DorjeeLing and why the people of DorjeeLing wanted to separate from WB and accede to Sikkim.
btw: DorjeeLing means the land (Ling) or the Dragon, and Dzonga means a mountain or a fortress, So KanjanDzonga means a golden mountain. ¶ 7:58 PM 0 Comments
