Krishna will arrange Sir...

Well we've been here in Darjeeling for three days now and only early this morning we had a glimpse of a high forest covered range to the west of us at perhaps 10,000 ft and 10 miles away. It's all a bit disappointing, rain and cloud every day but old Mr Chandulal at the pashmina shop assures us that Krishna will arrange some fine days for us. We certainly hope so because we plan to be moving on next Thursday.

Darjeeling is an interesting town with lots of ethnic groups here, Indians, Napalis, Tibetans and everything in between. It's a typical Indian town though with small stalls along almost every road and the narrow streets with small cafes selling an assortment of foods, sweets and drinks.

There are dogs everywhere and during the night they howl and bark and every nigbht there has been at least one Maddison Square Gardens fight in the street below out hotel. Mostly they lay in the middle of the road and ignore everyone.

We have chosen the Glenary as our evening dinner venue. It's a very well known haunt and meeting place amongst the expats and our first night here we met a nice couple from Dubbo. Megan and Matt are on an "India on a Shoestring" trip and they are having what could be described as an interesting time. They were both sick on the 24 hour train trip after leaving Delhi and Megan spent a night in the Darjeeling hospital. Fortunately we've been ok in the gut department so far and have been religiously taking our Travelan tabs, so we'll hopefully miss out on delhi belly... fingers crossed.

Today being Sunday a lot of the attractions are closed but we'll try and do a short tour this afternoon of the main sights.

We'll post some more pics when we can but as for snaps of the mountains... they are a whiter shade of pale so far.