7,000 Feet

So after a crazy long train ride and then a jeep ride I'm in Darjeeling. Darjeeling is on the east side of Nepal and is 7000 feet or 2134 metres above sea level. You should google it get an idea of where I am exaclty compared to 2 days ago. The train from Varansi was long, first it was 2.5 hours late. So it left at 2pm and not 11:30, I was at the train station for 9:30 and just waited around there with the smell of death. Varansi was okay but I'm glad to gone from there. The orginal plan was to go to Kolkata but I heard from a couple different people that's it's just another big city and is dirtier then Delhi. Which is not something I need to experience. So I just skipped it and headed north. The train ride was 21 hours long, it felt like more actually, I thought my dad and mom snored alot(i can hear them all through the house) but these Indian guys on the train are almost louder then the train. So finally today I arrived in New Jalpaiguri and took a share jeep north to Darjeeling. Which is 88km from there and it's all up hill. A share jeep is exaclty what it sounds like, 5-6 people pay the driver to take them somewhere. Alot of people make their living doing this because a lot of tourist come to Darjeeling. So the journey took about 4 hours and it was pretty nuts, if you've watched the tour de france-up those roads in the Alps. It's the same kind of road to Darjeeling.

This whole city is built on a mountain, it has about 100,000 people and it's world reknown for their Tea. More on that later. So that's just a quick update, I don't have too much to say because I did just spend the last 2 days travelling. Darjeeling is much cleaner then anywhere else I've been and the people here look more Asian then they do Indian.

A man said to me on the train "if you can travel in India, you can make it anywhere."

Thanks for reading and praying for me. I can feel your prayers because I've had a relatively easy time traveling in India and there's no way I could do it without God.

Andrew