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Darjeeling Silver Lining

By on February 17, 2012 in darjeeling, Darjeeling Photos, Photography - my passion, travel and tour

As we wait for the First Flush Darjeeling Tea 2012 season to begin, Darjeeling slowly gets to show its change in weather. Though still chilly, the much needed sun for this year’s 2012 First Flush crop is showing its face from time to time. Darjeeling needs a mix bag of weather for the tea – rain, sun, mist, fog alternatively and its kinda perfect now, but the shoots need to warm up a bit more to flush fully.

Here is such a weather change and setting which I got during sunset. “Every cloud has its silver lining” – the perfect picture portray. Hope you like it!

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- Benoy

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A Misty Ride to a nearby Darjeeling village

By on February 15, 2012 in darjeeling, Darjeeling Photos, travel and tour

Though the chill which we experienced during the month of January is not there anymore, its February 15 today and Darjeeling is still misty! In between we had some great sunny days, but the fog managed to blanket Darjeeling once again. My bike too goes into a hibernating state as the Darjeeling Tea bushes go, once the chill starts – thats what it had been doing – today I let it spread its wings a bit. Went on a short ride to a small village town which falls inbetween Nepal and India border – Maneybhanjang. This is the place from where the famous Sandhakphu trek starts!

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Its great to ride on a huge highway, but its not at all boring riding on the slopes of the Himalayan mountains! May not be a speedy ride, but a ride amidst undulating tea gardens, hills and nature. Such was a ride today, close to nature which had clad itself with the drop laden clouds, though visibility becomes misty, its always best to ride slow and enjoy the weather!

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- Benoy

 

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Some Tea with Darjeeling Capitol Clock Tower smiling | Photo post

By on February 5, 2012 in Darjeeling Photos, Personal Ramblings, Photography - my passion, travel and tour

Today I got sometime off and went on a stroll around town with my family. It was kinda late when we got out and soon the night crawled upon and humbled us all. As the night was approaching, we were having some Darjeeling Tea and food at the famous Darjeeling restaurant (open air) “Keventers”, and the slow crawl bestowed a certain brightness of magnificence pertaining to the view it was offering. Lucky I had taken my compact, P&S, I managed to take one shot of the Capitol Clock Tower or generally known as Darjeeling Clock Tower. Hope you like the photo. The photo is a little shaky as I had no tripods and clicked it free hand. No digital slr, just plain and simple point and shoot cam.

darjeeling-clock-tower Darjeeling Clock Tower photo!

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Fort Aguada, Goa, Sunset – lovely | Photo

By on January 29, 2012 in india holidays, Photography - my passion, travel and tour

I had completely forgotten to post this pic – one that I like the most! Its sunset view at Fort Aguada, Goa overlooking the Arabian Sea. It was a heavenly view. At the moment reflecting back on that very moment and trying to feel the celestial bliss as I sip my cup of Darjeeling Tea back home. Enjoy the photo!!

fort-aguada-goa-india View overlooking Arabian Sea as seen from Fort Aguada

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Night shot: The Gateway of India, Mumbai | Photo

By on January 25, 2012 in india holidays, Photography - my passion, travel and tour

This is one photo I like. Its “The Gateway of India”, Mumbai, at a very close vicinity from the hotel where we were staying. In fact as soon as we stepped out of the hotel, we got the view of the Gateway of India. I had taken this shot while walking some distance from the hotel as well as the Gateway of India in an attempt to capture the waterfront as well.

the-gateway-of-india-mumbai The Gateway of India (left), Mumbai

It was during the night and I had no tripod with me, so as a result, I had to stable it on one of the railings – Hope you like it!

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Global Vipassana Pagoda, Essel World, Mumbai | Photo

By on January 24, 2012 in Personal Ramblings, Photography - my passion, travel and tour

Photo update: My kid had been very keen on visiting Essel World and Water Kingdom in Mumbai. We were unaware of a Pagoda (Global Vipassana Pagoda) being situated within the Essel World premises. Great we had a trip to it. Though this can be reached overland, but we had taken a ferry ride. The place where we boarded the ferry was pretty bad smelling mainly due to tremendous amount of trash in the water – wish the government had a clean up drive there.

It was pretty late returning back to the hotel, the ferry service was still available. I took this photo from the ferry itself while returning – It portrayed a marvelous view! Hope you like it.

mumbai-essel-world-global-vipassana-pagoda  Global Vipassana Pagoda, Gorai (Borivali), Mumbai

The return ferry trip was filled with quite an extravaganza – the ferry had a music system installed and surprisingly were playing some techno music with a high volume – guys started dancing – it was entertaining, but the only thing scary was that the ferry was fully loaded with people and a pinch of danger arose within, but went fine!

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