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Oh buddy oh boy! India is freak'n spectacular! I can't believe all that I saw during my week of travels! I missed my train the first day of my travel and so my travel was cut back a day-2 short at Darjeeling. When I arrived in Darjeeling it was late so we stayed in Sliguri. It's a fun little town and a good get away from Kolkata. The hotel we stayed at in Silguri was a little more than what I was paying at in Kolkata but still less than 3 dollars a night but the room was by far, more cleaner and relaxing. There was AIR CONDITIONING! Our first meal on travel was at a resturant two doors down from our Hotel Manalia (I think that was what it was called) , but the resturant was SOOO nice and the same price as what I was paying for food in Kolkata! I was loving my travels already! Sitting outside under an umbrella table with the garden lit up... it was pretty sweet. The next morning we woke up and caught a Jeep to Darjeeling (3 hours away). In the jeep we crammed in about 12-13 people! It was a hell ride! It's diffinately one of the only way you can get up to Darjeeling with very limited time, otherwise you can take a toy train which takes about 10 hours or so but it's very luxurious and scenic. Well 3 hours crammed and cramp whinding up and around the foothills of the himalays made Caitlin a little car sick but when we got there it was the most breath taking town I've seen in my life! Even on the way up looking down on the himalayas was soooo beautiful. I've never seen anything like it. There were Bamboos as tall as evergreen trees that grew all up the hills of the Himalayas and families of monkeys running around. Waterfalls rolling off the rocks along side the whindy road up to Darjeeling. Everything was just sooo beautiful and surreal. We went above the clouds to the town of darjeeling and looking down was such an amazing site. Nonething really compares to being in Darjeeling. The town is built on the hills of the Himalayas and all throughout the Himalayas there are small towns. Built randomly in the hills. Looking out from Darjeeling all you really see is this hill that emerges from the clouds and than the town of Darjeeling. It's such an amazing feeling, I felt as if this town was floating on the clouds and built above the sky. So spectacular and breaktaking. And by far them most peaceful and helpful town I've been in. I couldn't believe I was still in India! It was a total 180 of what Kolkata is. Even the people in Darjeeling looked different. They had a more asian look to them and some of the locals mistaked me as a local and asked if I was from there, which made me laugh. There are a lot of people from Nepal in Darjeeling and everyone is just SO LAID BACK and the town is so calm and peaceful. That's as much justice I can do to describe it.