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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!

darjeeling-silver-lining

- Benoy

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Darjeeling Blend, not tea but of cultural colors :) | Photo

By on November 28, 2011 in Darjeeling Photos

I had taken this photo sometime back when I had visited the most renowned and sacred shrine at Observatory Hill in Darjeeling, known locally as “Dara”. Here lies one temple with two religions – sounds weird but this is true. One side constitutes Hinduism with Lord Shiva as the main deity of worship and the other side is Buddhism. Two religious priests will be sitting on opposite sides facing each other – one is a Hindu pundit and the other is a Buddhist Monk or Lama. If you are to dig into the religious history of both Hinduism and Buddhism, we find it intertwined and special place of worship such as this here on top of Observatory Hill proves it.

A Tibetan woman at Observatory Hill, Darjeeling

Ah yes, its not a tea blend, but a blend of colors. Yes, I have been talking about Darjeeling Tea since I got online and people tag me as a tea guy, which I don’t deny and every time I write something friends and foes :) take it surely to be tea related. Anyways, apart from tea, I love photography, though an amateur photographer, I really love to angle all thats related to tea, culture and nature. For a long time I have been thinking of upgrading to a better SLR, probably Canon SLR, but am really confused – Hope to decide upon soon and bring you better photographs.

The thing I like about this photo is how the Tibetan woman offering prayer flags at “Dara” has perfectly blended with with surrounding religious colors! I like this photo a lot!

Enjoy the photo!

- Benoy

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Part of Darjeeling Town, dusk | Photo

By on November 20, 2011 in Autumn Flush, Darjeeling Photos

This is a photo taken during twilight or you may say dusk – a part of Darjeeling town. Darjeeling had been severely experiencing some extreme cold wintery type of weather conditions starting right after the Diwali festivals. The weather turned all foggy with chilly winds blowing and we had to tug ourselves into more of those woolies.

Darjeeling town photo

Autumn flush for Darjeeling Tea production was affected a bit due to cold weather prevalent – managers from some Darjeeling Tea plantations informed me that some sections of their plantation had totally stopped bearing tea leaves due to the cold weather which inhibits growth – this is the very reason why Darjeeling Tea production goes into some kind of hibernation during the winter months. The inhibition of tea growth is simply due to lack of sunlight which is much needed for the new shoots to sprout properly.

Anyways, tea lovers need not worry about the new 2011 Autumn Flush, I have already bought some and looking out for some more :)

At the moment its been about 3 days, the sun god seems happy and its dawning upon us and we are now able to dry up our frozen bones. But the winds blowing across seems to be freezing in nature.

Enjoy the photo!

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Mirik and Sumendu Lake | Photo

By on October 28, 2011 in Darjeeling Photos, Photography - my passion
Sumendu lake, Mirik, Dist. Darjeeling

Mirik is a small hilly town in the district of Darjeeling and is most famous for its lake fenced by pine trees on one side and the other spreading towards the township. The lake is fed by small perennial streams and is at an altitude of about 5800 ft. The lake is about 2.5 km long and offers the most refreshing view.

I had taken this photo sometime ago, but had never shared publicly. Here you go!

Apart from the Sumendu lake, another attraction is the Buddhist monastery – Bokar Ngedon Chokor Ling Monastery. Founded in 1984, it is the center for monastic training, sustaining the ways of Shakyamuni Buddha. The biggest structure in red with the yellow roof on the left top hill is the Mirik monastery.

The other fascinating thing about the whole of Mirik valley is the number of tea gardens it holds. As one travels from Darjeeling to Mirik, numerous Darjeeling Tea plantations fall on the way eg. Okayti, Gopaldhara, Sourenee etc. Thurbo is one prominent tea garden which is just about 2 kms from Mirik. It has a picturesque landscape mostly surrounded by Darjeeling Tea gardens all over.

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