Tea Time 3: Sick Gardens and Short Shorts
Enough of this mappery, readers, let us get back to beverages-or rather, to the picking of green leaves that will end up in the…
Map: A Month in Pakistan
Our route (late June to late July, 2005): Rawalpindi-Islamabad –> Hunza Valley and Karimabad (via flight to Gilgit) –> Trek to Rash Lake –>…
Props
Nice write-up from the friendly FriskoDude, (a.k.a. Carl Parkes). Also got a mention in the World’s Cheapest Destination “Travelogues” list and a Transitions Abroad…
Travel Quote of the Week
“Which is worse, to be too often protected, and thereby forget the suffering of others, or to suffer them oneself? There is, perhaps, a…
Map: Across the Subcontinent
Here’s an overdue shot of our route. The writing is small, I know, so I’ll spell it out: after landing in Islamabad two months…
Tea Time Part 2: Why We are in Birpara
The simplest answer to the question of what my wife and I are doing in Jalpaiguri District, several hundred kilometers off the tourist trail…
The Bengal Bunch: Meet the Cast
Call it “Four’s Company†or “Leave it to Birpara,†but there’s no doubt: not since the Managua Pimp Tower have I found myself in…
Arrival in Birpara
By Indian standards, Birpara (pronounced with the accent on the first syllable: BEER-para) is indeed a small town – 39,000 souls, a number which…
North to Birpara
Our journey to North Bengal began with a hectic and hot ordeal in Calcutta’s Sealdah Rail Station, where, despite our confirmed a/c sleeper coach…
Date Night in Calcutta
Although still gazing northward toward our new and unknown home in the village of Birpara, Jaipalguri District, we remain wallowing in a character-less strip,…