By Hannah Douglas.
In Darjeeling, y'all can’t exactly only sit down downwards for a loving cup of tea. Tea connoisseurs volition get got y'all start sniffing the stuff, examining the leaves in addition to sifting them inwards your palms, earlier the pot fifty-fifty starts brewing.
It’s a long, steep walk downhill to view the handful of tea gardens inwards the Darjeeling area, such equally the Happy Valley Tea Estate. (Okay, it’s genuinely exclusively a duad miles northward of the pump of town.)
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| Winding trail downwards to Happy Valley Tea Estate. Photo credit: Soline Kauffmann. |
On my recent pursuit of the tea plantation there, a retired plantation worker, who opens her domicile to tourists for teatime, insisted on serving me some tea in addition to making it an educational experience.
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| Workers homes inwards the distance of the tea plantation hub inwards Darjeeling. Photo credit: Soline Kauffmann. |
For unnecessarily lengthy periods of time, nosotros talked nigh steep settings, plucking procedures in addition to any else she could come upwardly up with, until I genuinely exactly wanted a loving cup of coffee. At present, Darjeeling, a prime number tourist goal does genuinely get got enough of places to acquire dark coffee, aka a ‘cup of the existent stuff.’ Still, it’s later on all that chatter, later on the lesson inwards patience, when y'all get got that start sip, that you’ll forget the java bean. I genuinely hateful it.
You somehow, someway come across yourself irksome down, acquire to enjoy in addition to to in addition to thus delicately in addition to completely forget everything else y'all were doing. It’s a loving cup of tea. It’s Darjeeling.
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| View into the plain of tea. Photo credit: Soline Kauffmann. |
Author Bio: The author is an independent multimedia journalist in addition to go author originally from Springfield, Illinois, currently writing in addition to researching inwards New Delhi. She was scheduled to provide domicile to the San Francisco Bay Area weeks ago, but she exactly hasn’t quite been able to board the airplane yet. Her focus is on wellness policy, pedagogy reform in addition to novel media. Connect amongst her in addition to come across to a greater extent than of her travels at: hannahtravels.com or on Twitter: @hannahtravels.
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