{"id":337,"date":"2011-04-28T12:04:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T18:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/?p=337"},"modified":"2011-05-24T22:36:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T04:36:19","slug":"rishi-khola-zuluk-and-new-darjeeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/archives\/337","title":{"rendered":"Rishi Khola Zuluk and New Darjeeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the people in my office asked &#8220;Gangtok?&#8221; when I said I was heading North. Well, the places I went in North Bengal and Sikkim are old but not crowded at all; at least till now.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Morning News | Towards NJP by A y A n, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ayankhasnabis\/5665051677\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5108\/5665051677_eea1519be3.jpg\" alt=\"Morning News | Towards NJP\" width=\"500\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Got two days extra on Easter eve. There was no second thought. We were eight in the group. I did not know all of the people. Partho Da had planned and made the arrangements this time. It was very smooth for me. Just a cab to Sealdah and board the train on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Padatik Express as the name suggested was very late. After getting down at NJP, it took four hours to reach Rishi &#8230; and it was amazing.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Moods by Rishi by A y A n, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ayankhasnabis\/5675604287\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5188\/5675604287_a0ed9d3194_z.jpg\" alt=\"Moods by Rishi\" width=\"640\" height=\"445\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next day we started for Zuluk. It is near Jelep La which is the gateway towards China on the forgotten silk route. Zuluk had many offerings for us  &#8211; hail, flakes and snow!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Morning | First look outside.. it is snowing by A y A n, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ayankhasnabis\/5700372816\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3225\/5700372816_f841ac5333_z.jpg\" alt=\"Morning | First look outside.. it is snowing\" width=\"640\" height=\"445\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a new place called Sillery Gaon that was next. Locals are calling the place New Darjeeling to make it popular. It was a nice little hamlet. There is no electricity in this place but we never faced a problem. Instead the home-stay was wonderful. I fell in love with this place, completely.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Early Morning | Misty Mountains of Bengal by A y A n, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ayankhasnabis\/5751965920\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3175\/5751965920_f2d7e9caa6_z.jpg\" alt=\"Early Morning | Misty Mountains of Bengal\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To be continued&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the people in my office asked &#8220;Gangtok?&#8221; when I said I was heading North. Well, the places I went in North Bengal and Sikkim are old but not crowded at all; at least till now. Got two days extra on Easter eve. There was no second thought. We were eight in the group. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}