3rd May'2011—Day 2
06:30
“Wake up guys, NJP is about to come.Wake up and get freshened up.” Lobster jerked us and announced about the coming of next destination i.e. NEW JALPAI GURI...
“But there is still some time left, scheduled arrival is 7:30 am” Hari checked the ticket and said.
“So what? Just wake up yaar, why so sleepy? Let us have some fun” I added my words too.
I and Lobster were standing near the gate enjoying the greenery of extra refreshing morning of North West Bengal.
07:30
“Where is the station Mr Hari. Your correct time just passed. I just saw my clock ticking it past a couple of seconds ago” I teased Hari.
Hari took a zip and used it firmly on his mouth.
08:30
“Ok sir, enough with Hari, our station has come, let’s go” Lobster stopped me before I did any kind of funny thing with Hari.
Well to be very frank and very clear with the readers, it’s always not Hari, who committed any kind of mistake or did any stupid thing. It’s just like that he was so simple to deal with that some cunning things keep happening all around him. Sometimes it gets very difficult for him to decide about the things, whether that has to be taken seriously or not. So I have always made fun of him whenever he was around.
Hey Hari! Please don’t mind if any kind of irresistible or unwanted thing is written here relevant to you. I will make sure that this kind of situation won’t come and the same applies to LOBSTER and NARESH too.
Back to story:
We were in NJP station.
There was one thing that amazed me.All the passengers were getting-off the train as this was the last station though the train was named as Darjeeling Mail. Then from Lobster I came to know that there are no railway tracks for Darjeeling from NJP, same with Gangtok. I was surprised not because of the last station but of the name of the train being Darjeeling MAIL.
“Oh saahib ji Gangtok jaaoge ki Darjeeling?”
“Well for now, we just want to step out from the station; will you please show us the way?” I told the guy who came to us for his taxi to be hired.These kind of local guy always bothered me.they get stick to you untill you accept their offer.You get thrilled by the way they talk.They are so impressive in their work that in the end they will set you on their own.They will present their persuasive and heavily biased offers in a manner that makes you seem factual ,they will make you believe that no one can offer you the best deal in the whole area what they have offered.Before the trip, my friend already told me to not to entertain local public in NJP.They would have fix you in the trap of luxurious and attractive offer.Thus I didn't want to deal anything not only with him but also in NJP. But the damn person didn’t lose hope; his try had far more effort than my tease.
He then switched towards Lobster with a new hope. Lobster was roaming there with so much excitement. Well I really didn’t know whether it was Lobster’s face or his accent which helped him to know that he was an ASSAMI or it might be possible that Lobster welcomed him by himself.
Anyways with all luring and attractive effort after fifteen minutes, scène was like that that we were following that damn person with a happy face as we were informed that we were going to Gangtok at a very cheap price comparatively.
So, on the same track Lobster was very interested in talking with that damn person, in gaining a chance of getting a handsome package by making him of his own town buddy, just because they were talking in some different language other than the commonly used language such as English or Hindi.
“Chalo na sir, itna dheere dheere aaoge to kaise chalega….come quick sir” Lobster again woke us up. He was some 20-30 steps ahead of us, walking with the damn person. He looked very busy in settling the terms and conditions of the policy or some kind of a tour package. I was not so sure but it was looking like that.
By the way Mr Naresh and Mr Hari were also busy. They were busy in planning to have some shopping at the nearest possible zone.
After moving out of the New Zalpai Guri Station, we reached a tour agency to which that damn person had taken us. SAHA Tour Agency.
If you really want to visualize the outer place of the station, then it is no different other than any high profile station as it is the terminal station in North West Bengal. The station is always in high rush, NJP serves as the exit towards Sikkim as well as Darjeeling. There might be other possible ways from there too, but lack of knowledge prevails and makes it even harder. And outside the station there were only Tour agency and restaurants. Taxi stand was full of SUVs (Bolero, Sumo, Safari, Innova, etc). No other vehicle can sustain there and the reasons are
High power required. Normal cars never succeed to cross high altitude valleys.
Space. Normal cars don’t have so much space to accommodate handsome number of people. Whereas SUVs accommodate around 10 persons excluding the driver. More people, more money.
If you want to reserve or book the car with 3 or 4 guys then it’s ok with a small car.
So we were in Saha Tour Agency…
What to say about Saha Tour Agency….Awesome Hospitality in each and every aspect. Not only in terms of language as well as in place too. When Lobster asked something, reply came in Assameese and the answers to my questions came in Bengali. Even the proprietor had entered into my postal address and fixed his own home somewhere near to that.
Anyways we finally got the package for the Gangtok Trip.
1st day—NJP to Gangtok---reserved Taxi—Tata Indica
2nd & 3rd day -----Yamthang Valley Visit
4th Day----Gangtok visit and return to NJP
10:30
After all the rubbish discussion from both sides and a sound lure from the Agency’s side, we had tightened our shoe lace and set our feet on the Indica. I took the front seat as I always do. OH! One more thing, the driver was a Bengali, well nothing strange guys. In West Bengal, it is supposed to be that everyone has a Bengali background.
All set, here we were about to leave NJP. All were excited. Package had been set. We were all feeling good, because it was real a tedious task to get the proper arrangements made for the whole trip. We were on cloud 9, because all the tedious tasks had been done before we left NJP. We started enjoying the car trip towards GANGTOK that was nearly 126 kms away from where we were…..
Jharsuguda-->Kolkata-->Njp-->Gangtok-->Yamthang Valley
06:30
“Wake up guys, NJP is about to come.Wake up and get freshened up.” Lobster jerked us and announced about the coming of next destination i.e. NEW JALPAI GURI...
“But there is still some time left, scheduled arrival is 7:30 am” Hari checked the ticket and said.
“So what? Just wake up yaar, why so sleepy? Let us have some fun” I added my words too.
I and Lobster were standing near the gate enjoying the greenery of extra refreshing morning of North West Bengal.
07:30
“Where is the station Mr Hari. Your correct time just passed. I just saw my clock ticking it past a couple of seconds ago” I teased Hari.
Hari took a zip and used it firmly on his mouth.
08:30
“Ok sir, enough with Hari, our station has come, let’s go” Lobster stopped me before I did any kind of funny thing with Hari.
Well to be very frank and very clear with the readers, it’s always not Hari, who committed any kind of mistake or did any stupid thing. It’s just like that he was so simple to deal with that some cunning things keep happening all around him. Sometimes it gets very difficult for him to decide about the things, whether that has to be taken seriously or not. So I have always made fun of him whenever he was around.
Hey Hari! Please don’t mind if any kind of irresistible or unwanted thing is written here relevant to you. I will make sure that this kind of situation won’t come and the same applies to LOBSTER and NARESH too.
Back to story:
We were in NJP station.
There was one thing that amazed me.All the passengers were getting-off the train as this was the last station though the train was named as Darjeeling Mail. Then from Lobster I came to know that there are no railway tracks for Darjeeling from NJP, same with Gangtok. I was surprised not because of the last station but of the name of the train being Darjeeling MAIL.
“Oh saahib ji Gangtok jaaoge ki Darjeeling?”
“Well for now, we just want to step out from the station; will you please show us the way?” I told the guy who came to us for his taxi to be hired.These kind of local guy always bothered me.they get stick to you untill you accept their offer.You get thrilled by the way they talk.They are so impressive in their work that in the end they will set you on their own.They will present their persuasive and heavily biased offers in a manner that makes you seem factual ,they will make you believe that no one can offer you the best deal in the whole area what they have offered.Before the trip, my friend already told me to not to entertain local public in NJP.They would have fix you in the trap of luxurious and attractive offer.Thus I didn't want to deal anything not only with him but also in NJP. But the damn person didn’t lose hope; his try had far more effort than my tease.
He then switched towards Lobster with a new hope. Lobster was roaming there with so much excitement. Well I really didn’t know whether it was Lobster’s face or his accent which helped him to know that he was an ASSAMI or it might be possible that Lobster welcomed him by himself.
Anyways with all luring and attractive effort after fifteen minutes, scène was like that that we were following that damn person with a happy face as we were informed that we were going to Gangtok at a very cheap price comparatively.
So, on the same track Lobster was very interested in talking with that damn person, in gaining a chance of getting a handsome package by making him of his own town buddy, just because they were talking in some different language other than the commonly used language such as English or Hindi.
“Chalo na sir, itna dheere dheere aaoge to kaise chalega….come quick sir” Lobster again woke us up. He was some 20-30 steps ahead of us, walking with the damn person. He looked very busy in settling the terms and conditions of the policy or some kind of a tour package. I was not so sure but it was looking like that.
By the way Mr Naresh and Mr Hari were also busy. They were busy in planning to have some shopping at the nearest possible zone.
After moving out of the New Zalpai Guri Station, we reached a tour agency to which that damn person had taken us. SAHA Tour Agency.
If you really want to visualize the outer place of the station, then it is no different other than any high profile station as it is the terminal station in North West Bengal. The station is always in high rush, NJP serves as the exit towards Sikkim as well as Darjeeling. There might be other possible ways from there too, but lack of knowledge prevails and makes it even harder. And outside the station there were only Tour agency and restaurants. Taxi stand was full of SUVs (Bolero, Sumo, Safari, Innova, etc). No other vehicle can sustain there and the reasons are
High power required. Normal cars never succeed to cross high altitude valleys.
Space. Normal cars don’t have so much space to accommodate handsome number of people. Whereas SUVs accommodate around 10 persons excluding the driver. More people, more money.
If you want to reserve or book the car with 3 or 4 guys then it’s ok with a small car.
So we were in Saha Tour Agency…
What to say about Saha Tour Agency….Awesome Hospitality in each and every aspect. Not only in terms of language as well as in place too. When Lobster asked something, reply came in Assameese and the answers to my questions came in Bengali. Even the proprietor had entered into my postal address and fixed his own home somewhere near to that.
Anyways we finally got the package for the Gangtok Trip.
1st day—NJP to Gangtok---reserved Taxi—Tata Indica
2nd & 3rd day -----Yamthang Valley Visit
4th Day----Gangtok visit and return to NJP
10:30
After all the rubbish discussion from both sides and a sound lure from the Agency’s side, we had tightened our shoe lace and set our feet on the Indica. I took the front seat as I always do. OH! One more thing, the driver was a Bengali, well nothing strange guys. In West Bengal, it is supposed to be that everyone has a Bengali background.
All set, here we were about to leave NJP. All were excited. Package had been set. We were all feeling good, because it was real a tedious task to get the proper arrangements made for the whole trip. We were on cloud 9, because all the tedious tasks had been done before we left NJP. We started enjoying the car trip towards GANGTOK that was nearly 126 kms away from where we were…..
Jharsuguda-->Kolkata-->Njp-->Gangtok-->Yamthang Valley
