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Sikkim, Sikkim DIBYENDU DAS, , Posted Date: 18th November 2012 DEAR FRIENDS, I VISITED GANGTOK AND NORTH SIKKIM ON 30TH OCT_2012 AND RETURNED BACK ON 08TH..... DEAR FRIENDS, I VISITED GANGTOK AND NORTH SIKKIM ON 30TH OCT_2012 AND RETURNED BACK ON 08TH NOV_2012. I LIKE TO SHARE MY EXP[ERIENCES WITH YOU ALL. OUR TOUR PLAN WAS LIKE THESE: WE WERE VERY HAPPY AND EXCITING WITH THE ABOVE TOUR PLAN SINCE LAST 4 MONTHS WHEN WE RESERVED THE TRAIN TICKETS. 30.10.12: BOARD AT DARJEELING MAIL FROM SEALDAH. 31.10.12 : AFTER COMING DOWN TO NJP WE OPTED FOR AN EXCLUSIVE INNOVA AS WE WERE 7 IN NUMBERS, IT COSTS RS.2200/-. THE CAB OWNER TOLD US THAT HE WILL DROP US AT GANGTOK HOTEL BUT HE LEFT US AT TAXI STAND FROM WHERE WE HAD TO BOOK 2 CABS FOR REACHING OUR HOTEL WHICH CHARGED RS.140/- PER CAB. WE REACHED GANGTOK AT ABOUT 3.30PM. WE HAVE BOOKED HOLIDAY HOME AT GANGTOK FROM THE TEA BOARD HOLIDAY HOME COMMITTEE. THE ROOMS WERE SITUATED AT HOTEL SILVER FIR. THE FIRST SHOCK CAME IN WHEN WE REACHED THE HOTEL. THE HOTEL OWNERES PROVIDED US THREE ROOMS THAT WERE BOOKED BUT TO OUR ASTONISHMENT WE FOUND THAT OUT OF THE 3 ROOMS FROM ONE ROOM NO KANCHANDONGA WAS VISIBLE AS HAVE BEEN TOLD BY THE TEA BOARD AUTHORITIES AT THE TIME OF BOOKING. THE SECOND SHOCKING THING CAME WHEN THE HOTEL MANAGER MR. BAPI MONDAL, OWNER MR. CHATTERJEE AND THE STAFFS WHO ARE MOST ARROGANT PERSONS INFORMED THAT NO 24 HRS RUNNING WATER FACILITY IS THERE. THEY WILL PROVIDE BUCKET OF WATER WHEN ASKED FOR AND THE RUNNING WATER WILL BE PROVIDED FROM MORNING 6AM TO 8AM AND EVENING 5PM TO 6PM BUT TAHT WAS ALSO NO DONE BY THEM. WHEN CONTACTED WITH THE TEA BOARD AUTHORITIES THEY DIDNOT ENTERTAINED US AND DISCONNECTED THE LINE. IN THE EVENING WE BEING REALLY DISAPPOINTED WENT TO THE MALL TO PASS OUT SOME TIME AND WE BOOKED OUR TOUR FOR THE NEXT DAY TO NATHULA, CHANGU AND BABA MANDIR. THIS WAS OUR SECOND BLUNDER TO BOOK THE TOUR FROM A BENGALI TOUR OPERATOR MR. KRISHNA KANTA ADAK (KESTO DA) OF HIDDEN VELLEY TOURS AND TRAVELS. IT COSTS PER HEAD RS.700/- PER HEAD ON SHARING. 01.11.12: AT EARLY MORNING 8AM WE WENT TO THE OFFICE OF HIDDEN VALLEY TOURS AND TRAVELS WHO PROVIDED US WITH A OLD TATA SUMO. SINCE WE HAVE BOOKED THE TOUR ON SHARING BASIS SO ANOTHER 3 YOUNG BOYS WAS THERE WITH US BUT AT THE TIME OF TAKING PERMISSION THE SAID 3 BOYS WENT WITH ANOTHER VEHICLE WITHOUT INFORMING US AND WE HAD TO DELAY OUR TOUR OVER 2 HOURS WAITING FOR THEM. ATLAST ANOTHER 3 PERSONS WERE PROVIDED AND THEN WE FIRST VISITED NATHULA PASS THEN NEW BABA MANDIR AND AT LAST CHANGU LAKE. AT THE TIME OF RETURNING BACK TO GANGTOK THE GEAR BOX OF OUR VEHICLE WAS BROKEN AND SOME HOW BY TIEING IT UP WE REACHED GANGTOK BY 7PM ON THAT DAY. 02.11.12: WE THOUGHT FOR DOING THE LOCAL SIGHT SEEING AT GANGTOK BUT AT LAST CHANGED OUR DECISION AND DIDNOT GO FOR THE SAME. AT NIGHT WE BOOKED THE TOUR FOR NORTH SIKKIM FROM THE SAID KESTO DA WHO TOOK RS.16000/- FOR AN EXCLUSIVE VEHICLE FOR 2N 3D TOUR OF 5 PERSONS INCLUDING FOODING AND LODGING. OUR 2 FRIENDS DIDNOT GO TO NORTH SIKKIM SO ONLY 5 OF US WENT THERE. 03.11.12: THE FIRST SHOCKING THING CAME WHEN KESTODA PROVIDED A TATA SUMO INSTEAD OF MAXX WHICH WE HAVE ASKED FOR. WHEN WE CALLED HIM UP HE DIDNOT EVEN CAME AS WE HAD ALREADY MADE THE PAYMENT TO HIM. THEN HE DIRECTED THE DRIVER TO TAKE A SHORT ROUTE INSTEAD OF THE REGULAR ROUTE WHERE THERE ARE NUMBER OF SIGHT SEEING. WHEN WE ASKED THE DRIVER HE TOLD THAT KESTO DA HAD INSTRUCTED HIM TO TAKE THAT ALTERNATIVE ROUTE. WE WERE DISSAPOINTED AS BECAUSE WE MISSED THE SIGHT SEEINGS OF THE REGULAR ROUTE TO LACHEN ADN REALISED THAT WE HAD FALL INTO THE CHEATING TRAP OF GREAT MR. KESTO. AT LAST AT ABOUT 6PM WE REACHED LACHEN. THE ROOMS PROVIDED THERE WERE GOOD BUT THE GEYSERS WERE NOT WORKING. THE HOTEL STAFFS WERE REALLY WONDERFUL THEY PERMITTED US TO USE THE GEYSER OF ANOTHER ROOM WHEN WE COMPLAINED THEM. THAT DAY BY TAKING HOT DINNER AT 7:30PM WE WENT TO BED AT 8:00PM AS BECAUSE WE HAVE TO START AT $AM THE NEXT DAY FOR GURUDONGMAR LAKE. 04.11.12: AT 4AM IN THE MORNING WE STARTED OUR JOURNEY FOR GURUDONGMAR LAKE. WE REACHED THERE AT ABOUT 8:30AM AND WERE THE FIRST TO REACH THERE. WE WERE COMPLETELY MUM FOR THE FIRST 2 TO 3 MINUTES AFTER WE REACHED THE LAKE. IT IS THE MOST WORTHY MOMENT OF OUR JOURNEY. NATURE WAS AT ITS BEST THERE. AFTER SOME PHOTO SHOOTS WE AGAIN STARTED OUR JOURNEY. WE WERE THINKING THAT WE WILL NEXT PROCEED TO THANGU VALLEY THEN TO LACHEN BUT OUR DRIVER INFORMED THAT MR. KESTO DIDNOT TOLD HIM TO VISIT THERE INSTED OF THE FACT THAT THANGU VALLEY WAS IN OUR TOUR PACKAGE. THERE WAS NO NETWORK TO CONTACT WITH KESTO AND IF THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NETWORK ALSO NOTHING COULD HAVE BEEN DONE. ALSO NO BREAKFAST WAS PROVIDED TO US THIS DAY. AT 12.30PM WE REACHED OUR HOTEL AT LACHEN AND AFTER TAKING LUNCH WE LEFT FOR LACHUNG ABD REACHED LACHUNG AT ABOUT 4PM. HERE ALSO WE HAVE BEEN CHEATED BY MR. KESTO. HE TOLD US THAT THERE IS TV IN EVERY ROOM AND GEYSER AT HOTEL HIDDEN VALLEY WHEREAS THE FACT REMAINS THAT NO TV WEER THERE AND GEYSER NOT WORKING. THE MOST FUNNY THING IS THAT NO ELECTRICITY WAS THERE DUE TO SOME OF THERE INTERNAL PROBLEM. WE SPEND THE NIGHT AT TOTAL DARKNESS. THERE WE MET UP WITH SOME OTHER TRAVELLERS WHO WERE ALSO BEEN CHEATED IN THE SAME MANNER BY MR. KESTO. WE WERE LUCKY THAT HE PROVIDED US WITH 2 ROOMS BUT WITH OTHERE HE EVEN CHEATED THEM WITH THE NUMBER OF ROOMS ALSO. BY ASSURING TO PROVIDE THEM 4 ROOMS HE PROVIDED THEM WITH 3 ROOMS ONLY. 05.11.12: AT 5:30AM WE STARTED OUR JOURNEY FOR YUMTHANG VALLEY. FORTUNATELY ONLY SOME BREAD AND BUTTER WAS PROVIDED AS BREAKFAST. WE HAVE SEEN NOTHING AT YUMTHANG VALLEY AS THE DRIVER TOLD US THAT THIS WAS NOT THE SEASON FOR FLOWERS. FROM YUMTHANG VALLEY WE WENT FOR ZERO POINT BY PAYING EXTRA RS.2500/- TO THE DRIVER. THIS WAS ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL PLACE WHERE WE GOT SNOW ALL AROUND. THEN WE CAME DOWN TO LACHUNG AND TOOK LUNCH AND LEFT FOR PANGTHANG WHERE MR. KESTO ARRANGED FOR STAY AT TREKKER\'S HUT FOR RS.1500/- FOR 2 ROOMS. HE ASSURED US THAT NATURE IS AT ITS BEST FROM TREKKER\'S HUT AND WHOLE KANCHANZONGA RANGE IS VISIBLE FROM THERE WHICH IS ANOTHER LIE. WE REACHED PANGTHANG AT ABOUT 6PM AND WAS DISSAPOINTED WITH THE ROOMS. THE ROOMS WERE DIRTY BUT FORTUNATELY THE GEYSERS WERE WORKING. MR. MADAN THE STAFF OF MR. KESTO WAS A VERY GOOD PERSON. HE TOOK TOTAL CARE OF US AT PANGTHANG AND APART FROM OUR DISSAPOINTMENT REGARDING THE ROOMS WE WERE SATISFIED WITH HIS POLITE AND GENTLE BEHAVIOUR. TO OUR ANOTHER SURPRISE NO ENTIRE KANCHANZONGA RANGE WAS VISIBLE AS WAS ASSURED BY MR. KESTO. ANY WAY WE SPENT THE NIGHT THERE HAPPILY BECAUSE OF MR. MADAN. 06.11.12: AT ABOUT 9AM IN THE MORNING WE TOOK ONE CAB AND WENT TO THE TAXI STAND TO CATCH SHARE TAXI FOR SILIGURI. FROM PANGTHANG TO TAXI STANG IT TOOK RS.50/- PER HEAD AND FOR SILIGURI IT TOOK RS. 170/- PER HEAD. WE REACHED AT SILIGURI AT ABOUT 2.30PM AND TOOK LUNCH AND BOOKED TWO ROOMS AS TIANA LODGE. THE ROOMS WERE SUPERB. IN THE EVENING WE WENT TO VISIT THE HONGKONG MARKET. 07.11.12: WE SPENT THE ENTIRE DAY AT HOTEL AND AT EVENING WE REACHED NJP STATION BY SHARED AUTO WHICH CHARGED RS.20/- PER HEAD TO CATCH TRAIN (DARJEELING MAIL) FOR SEALDAH. 08.11.12: AT 7AM THE TRAIN REACHED SEALDAH. THIS WAS OUR ENTIRE TRIP WHERE IN EVERY STEPS WE WERE CHEATED BY THE HOTEL OWNER AT GANGTOK AND ALSO BY THE TOUR OPERATORS. SO FRIENDS BE AWARE OF THE HOTEL SILVER FIR AND HIDDEN VALLEY TOURS AND TRAVELS. ONE EXPERIENCE WHICH WE GATHERED FROM THIS TOUR IS THAT THE GANGTOK TOUR BUSINESS IS TOTALLY BASED UPON CHEATING SO BE AWARE TO BOOK ANY HOTEL AND TOUR AT GANGTOK. More » |
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Agra, Uttar Pradesh DIBYENDU DAS, , Posted Date: 27th August 2011 City of Taj the 7th wonder of the world built by a lover for his beloved. City is very dirty but..... City of Taj the 7th wonder of the world built by a lover for his beloved. City is very dirty but the monuments are great work of sculptures during the mughal period. More » |
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