Other than today, it's been cloudy and cold - cold enough to inspire me to look in the guidebook for warm and sunny places to take a detour. A few days ago, we made the impulse decision fly to the Andaman Islands for a week, following our trek in Sikkim (which starts tomorrow)! A tropical beach vacation sounds like the write medicine for this cold... I don't know if we'll find time or a connection to blog for some time, so I thought I'd put up a quick entry and some photos to tide you over.
We had a great tour of the Makaibari Tea Estate in Kurseong at the beginning of the last week. It is the first organic and biodynamically grown estate in the region, and they treated us to a great tour and tasting. Hiking back into town, we stopped off at the Tea Research Institute and got a great little (impromptu) tour by one of the researchers there. Only wish we had spent more time in Kurseong exploring the world of fine tea. I did buy a bunch and will be putting together a presentation and tasting when I return... Sign up now! :*)
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