Ever meticulous and cautious, I do weeks of research about a place before I actually land there and Darjeeling was no different. After careful digging around and tons of time spent on the internet, I finally prepared my masterplan - the itinerary for my vacation. Hotels were called, tickets were booked, local taxi numbers were noted, wardrobe was planned (and replanned about five times), goodbyes were said and I was on my way.
Only, someone up there had a different agenda in mind.
Absolutely nothing worked as per the plan. Which is no problem to someone gifted with as many grey, blue and pink cells as I, but it kinda gets a wee bit heavy on the pocket.
So we reached Bagdogara airport from where we would take a taxi to Gangtok, but were informed that there was a huge landslide and roads to Gangtok were closed. We'd have to go there via Darjeeling.
So what was the issue you may ask. Well, in case you don't know (and that's rather obvious), Bagdogara, Darjeeling and Gangtok form a triangle. One of the first principles of a triangle is that you can't go someplace via some other place without doubling the time. After a 5 hour trip we were in no mood to go winding about on mountain roads for another 9 hours. Besides we had scheduled our hotel dates in Gangtok first.
Anyway, reason took over and we decided to start our vacation with Darjeeling instead. Unfortunately when we reached Gangtok after a few blissful days in Darjeeling, Nathula pass was closed, I ran out of camera memory, the famous Kanchenjunga sunrise was blotted out with clouds and we got stuck in another landslide on our way back and nearly missed our flight.
Did we enjoy the trip? You bet we did. How much did we spend? At least 30% more than our budget!
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