http://thealienworld.com An effort to understand the real world! Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:17:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://thealienworld.com/2009/10/23/north-east-trip-day-7/ http://thealienworld.com/2009/10/23/north-east-trip-day-7/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:06:00 +0000 Nitin http://alienworld.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/north-east-trip-day-7/ Location: Dzongri Base Camp to Dzongri Peak Distance: 2 Kms Height: 4200 mts Date: 6-Oct-09 Dzongri peak gives the best view of Mount Kanchenjunga, but to see it we had to reach there before sunrise.  After previous day’s high altitude sickness, I woke up fresh in the morning. Anything after midnight is morning, though it [...]

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]]> http://thealienworld.com/2009/10/16/north-east-trip-%e2%80%93-day-6/feed/ 0 http://thealienworld.com/2009/10/14/north-east-trip-%e2%80%93-day-5/ http://thealienworld.com/2009/10/14/north-east-trip-%e2%80%93-day-5/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:32:11 +0000 Nitin http://alienworld.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/north-east-trip-%e2%80%93-day-5/ Location: Trek from Yuksam to Tshokha Distance: 12 Kms Height: 10000 ft Date: 4-Oct-09 The day started early for us, as we had to get ready to start our trek. It was the bright sunny day and that reflected in my mood too. I was full of energy and ready to conquer the peak. On [...]

]]> http://thealienworld.com/2009/10/14/north-east-trip-%e2%80%93-day-5/feed/ 0 http://thealienworld.com/2009/10/12/north-east-trip-%e2%80%93-day-4/ http://thealienworld.com/2009/10/12/north-east-trip-%e2%80%93-day-4/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:19:14 +0000 Nitin http://alienworld.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/north-east-trip-%e2%80%93-day-4/ Location: Yuksam Height: 5000 ft. Date: 3-Oct-09 Yuksom is around 138 kms from Gangtok. We started from Gangtok at around 0900 hrs. Our guide, Lalang Subba, came in morning to pick us from our hotel. The Jeep was loaded with the food ration for the next 1 week. On the way, we stopped at Ravangla [...]

]]> http://thealienworld.com/2009/10/12/north-east-trip-%e2%80%93-day-4/feed/ 0 http://thealienworld.com/2009/10/11/north-east-trip-%e2%80%93-day-3/ http://thealienworld.com/2009/10/11/north-east-trip-%e2%80%93-day-3/#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:24:38 +0000 Nitin http://alienworld.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/north-east-trip-%e2%80%93-day-3/ Location: Gangtok, Sikkim Date: 2-Oct-09 We started for Gangtok at around 0800 hrs. The highway was bad, in fact too bad to be called even roads and that’s the state of roads I observed in most of northern part of West Bengal. On the way we stopped at an arc-bridge (one of its kind in [...]

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